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laughterlaughter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

I’m almost convinced that Kagi comments on Lemmy are spam. Please prove me wrong:

Has anyone here tried Kagi because of a recommendation from here and, well, actually found it better than the rest?

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Mkengine@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I use it, but to be honest I did not do a comprehensive comparison. I like it mostly for the fine grained website control. For work and some personal stuff I often look for code and can push websites like GitHub to appear more often. Or I can block Pinterest in my search results. I tried to do this in SearXNG, but this was too much of a hassle so in a way I pay kagi for convenience. I recently got a new job and will evaluate in the coming months if it is still worth the money, but right now I am satisfied. Nobody else I know would pay for a search engine, so I can understand the stance, but I am really fed up with all the advertising and enshitification so I thought why not give it a try.

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- laughterlaughter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Thank you for your insight. Much better than the usual, “oh yeah, Kagi is good. All praise Kagi!”
  
  Your account makes it sound very appealing, so I’ll check Kagi out more closely.
  
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jmanes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I didn’t get recommended it here, but elsewhere. I ended up paying for a years worth last year and yeah I like it better than pretty much everything else. There is still a rare occasion that I need to use Google, but that is maybe once a week whereas with DuckDuckGo it was multiple times per-day.

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nitefox@sh.itjust.works [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I did lol, why the hell would I recommend it otherwise?

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- laughterlaughter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  
  I did lol, why the hell would I recommend it otherwise?
  
  Not directly saying that you’re doing this, but c’mon, you know the answer. Why would anyone recommend a paid product?
  
  There is a free trial and you can check out if it’s worth it for you btw
  
  Nice! I didn’t know there was a trial. Good to know.
  
  You can also filter out the quora and other shitty websites results, which is nice
  
  Oh, now we’re talking!! That’s very cool.
  
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  - nitefox@sh.itjust.works [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Cause the free alternatives are trash, so… it’s not like “free is better” is always true
    
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