Kagi is a paid alternative to ad-supported search engines like Google and DuckDuckGo. It has recently revised its pricing model, reducing the cost for a plan with unmetered searches from $25 per month to $10.
Kagi boasts the following (and more) features:
- Blocking or boosting specific domains in your search results
- “Lenses”, which are individual setting profiles (e.g. region locks, domain whitelists) that can be applied to search queries
- All of the Bangs that DuckDuckGo has (e.g. type “!yt” in front of your query to immediately search on youtube.com)
- Universal Summarizer, which works with any website, PDF document, YouTube video and more
This blog post goes into full details about Kagi’s capabilities.
Oh sick!! I was already on the $10/month plan. This is great news!!!
Same. Looks like you and I both will be getting unlimited searches now. :D
Samesies :P This is awesome. Love being a user and not the product. EDIT:
With the redirector extension you can import the following to help with muscle memory.
{
"createdBy": "Redirector v3.5.3",
"createdAt": "2023-09-22T00:00:00.631Z",
"redirects": [
{
"description": "Google->Kagi",
"exampleUrl": "https://www.google.com/search?q=kagi%20rocks&sca_esv=011101111&source=dv&ei=CN",
"exampleResult": "https://kagi.com/search?q=kagi%20rocks",
"error": null,
"includePattern": ""^(?:https?):\\/\\/(?:www\\.)?google\\.com(\\/?$|(\\/search\\?q=.*?(?=[&])))"",
"excludePattern": "",
"patternDesc": "Redirect Kagi",
"redirectUrl": "https://kagi.com$1",
"patternType": "R",
"processMatches": "noProcessing",
"disabled": false,
"grouped": false,
"appliesTo": [
"main_frame"
]
},
]
}
Same too! I was literally considering the update to the family plan so I could share it. This is welcome news.
Edit: I’m actually going to update to the duo plan. Super affordable now!
Probably a good pricing decision. To avoid hitting the 300/month usage I kept DDG as default and only used Kagi for more complex searches. If I upgrade to this I could then keep Kagi as default.
How does ddg compare? I’ve tried kagi, but didn’t find it much better than ddg. Perhaps I should try again.
This is fantastic. I’ve been a $5 Kagi user for a few months and have been really enjoying it. The only issue has been that sometimes when I’m working on a project I need to blow through a ton of similar queries to find what I’m looking for; I’ve been forced to switch back to google for those. Now I’ve upgraded and am going full Kagi.
This is awesome! I always wanted to try out Kagi but was not huge fan of the original pricing model. I think I might have to give Kagi a try now!
Does anyone have experience with non-english searches? Are the results of similar quality?
