Kagi is Really Great
I’ve been a paying Kagi user for nearly two years, now. September 13^th^ will be my official start date. I have to say, I’ve been extremely pleased with the service. Not only is the search functionality surfacing stuff I actually want, but I also get to filter out the noise and promote what I generally like to see regardless of the underlying results. That means I pin things like Wikipedia, StackOverflow and other sites to the top of the list to get what I want, faster. I also can demote or outright block things, like Wikia/Fandom links, Pinterest, Instagram, TikTok and other social media posts.
If I do come across something that my personalized results may be obscuring, I
can just click the link at the top that changes the search so that I see
unfiltered results. This is helpful when I’m doing searches, like
“The Daily Show”. I don’t need the Wikipedia entry, I am likely looking to get
the YouTube page (which has reduced visibility in my personalized results). This
feels like a great trade-off. For the vast majority of my searches, I have some
sites that I strongly prefer. In certain situations, I don’t need it, and turn
it off for that result listing. It’s very rare that I need to use the !bang
features anymore. I used to need to jump out to Google or DDG, but I don’t find
that they’re as useful as the results I’m getting from Kagi directly.
With the addition to the FastGPT and Summarizer, it seems like a great deal with this already. However, now I’m getting access to the Assistant, which is like a pre-paid token to many different LLM models from different companies through one interface. While I don’t need such tools, it’s great that I have access to them via my subscription, even if they’re still limited in volume.
Overall, there is no way that I would switch back to Google, and DDG and Bing feel like pale imitations of Kagi.
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