I need a better programming specific search engine. DuckDuckGo seems like it’s gotten worse at code/project searches and will now just assume you misspelled some common word.
Well luckily for you, they don’t do that. It doesn’t maintain a search history at all which has its pros and cons. The only reason you have to login to use it is to check your payment level to determine your feature access. It is nice that login also allows you to use the same settings for multiple devices. One of those settings I really like is hiding results from certain websites (e.g. pinterest).
You can never truly know about almost any online service, you kinda just have to take their word for it, do some research, and pick the option that best matches both the performance and philosophy you’re looking for.
I’m not worried about Kagi’s privacy, the only thing you need to give them is an email address (which is kind of a no-brainer if they need to contact you).
You can pay with Bitcoin if you want more privacy.
And they don’t even allow you to store your own search history, because they don’t want to save it anywhere.
“Save My Search History
Currently this option can not be turned on. Kagi does not save any searches by default. In the future we may add features that will utilize your search history and then we will allow you to enable this.”
First time I’ve heard of them. I like the concept but 5$ a month for only 300 search makes me think that you’d still need another search engine on the side, or pay for the more expensive plan.
I’m at 243 searches now and it resets in 8 days. Seems to be enough for me.
I do use bangs quite a bit, so if I need to find a movie I go !imdb the matrix and if I’m looking for a book I can go !gr rando splicer which saves on search credits.
It’s either money or your data. I prefer to pay with money. If enough people do, the price might lower (hopeium) or the competition might increase for the same service, creating better or cheaper services in the same space.
You may have changed my life with kagi. It is amazing so far at giving the results I want, and categorizing stuff like discussions so you don’t have to add “Reddit” at the end of every search to get decent results.
And you can easily block or boost sites in the search results: I’ve got all pinterest domains blocked, along with a bunch of “news” outlets that don’t actually produce anything good in the world.
Similarly I have stuff like reddit, hackernews etc boosted in the results if they match.
I did the free trial for a while and only used Kagi for a while, still going strong with the $5 300 searches per month tier. I don’t really need to search that much because the results are usually correct the first time :)
Yep. I’m 100% sold on it. Thank you very much kind human. It’s crazy how used to Google I had become. Not thinking about features which would be helpful like simply raising/lowering a sites visibility. It even has done well for me when it comes to local searches! Truly a game changer.
I need a better programming specific search engine. DuckDuckGo seems like it’s gotten worse at code/project searches and will now just assume you misspelled some common word.
I’ve been using bing chat as my search engine for work stuff. Usually gives me the vendor kb or blog I need.
I tried Kagi last fall because everyone was raving about it.
Now I’m paying $5/month for search and couldn’t be happier 😅
What is Kati and is it actually good?
Edit:
Is it kagi?
https://kagi.com/
Seems like something I’d be into but I’m also not a fan of my search results being logged against me.
What do you mean? That you have an account so your searches are “linked” to you?
Exactly
Well luckily for you, they don’t do that. It doesn’t maintain a search history at all which has its pros and cons. The only reason you have to login to use it is to check your payment level to determine your feature access. It is nice that login also allows you to use the same settings for multiple devices. One of those settings I really like is hiding results from certain websites (e.g. pinterest).
Sounds ideal, but there’s no way we can ever truly know, is there?
You can never truly know about almost any online service, you kinda just have to take their word for it, do some research, and pick the option that best matches both the performance and philosophy you’re looking for.
Yup, same reason I don’t do VPN services. This is actually a perfect example of my concerns:
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58476983
I think they mean the fact they count each search you do, and depending on your pricing plan, can run out of searches in a month…
I’m not worried about Kagi’s privacy, the only thing you need to give them is an email address (which is kind of a no-brainer if they need to contact you).
You can pay with Bitcoin if you want more privacy.
And they don’t even allow you to store your own search history, because they don’t want to save it anywhere.
First time I’ve heard of them. I like the concept but 5$ a month for only 300 search makes me think that you’d still need another search engine on the side, or pay for the more expensive plan.
The 300 searches goes pretty far because you usually get the correct result the first time.
Also you can just use hashbangs to search directly from a site like imdb, letterboxd, goodreads etc so those don’t count against the 300 either.
Do you find the limited number of searches enough? I’d do it if it were unlimited for $5, but not going to pay $10 for a search engine.
I’m at 243 searches now and it resets in 8 days. Seems to be enough for me.
I do use bangs quite a bit, so if I need to find a movie I go
!imdb the matrixand if I’m looking for a book I can go!gr rando splicerwhich saves on search credits.It’s either money or your data. I prefer to pay with money. If enough people do, the price might lower (hopeium) or the competition might increase for the same service, creating better or cheaper services in the same space.
I do 20-30 searches a day at work, so I definitely need to upgrade (annually it’s around 100$ so not bad at all).
Their Universal Summarizer is awesome too
I thought I’d burn through them but I haven’t had an issue. I use DDG for low hanging fruit but I’m going to stop bothering.
Depends. I use search engines a lot as a programmer. I have over 600 so far. But the results have been good. I’m willing to pay for that.
You may have changed my life with kagi. It is amazing so far at giving the results I want, and categorizing stuff like discussions so you don’t have to add “Reddit” at the end of every search to get decent results.
And you can easily block or boost sites in the search results: I’ve got all pinterest domains blocked, along with a bunch of “news” outlets that don’t actually produce anything good in the world.
Similarly I have stuff like reddit, hackernews etc boosted in the results if they match.
I did the free trial for a while and only used Kagi for a while, still going strong with the $5 300 searches per month tier. I don’t really need to search that much because the results are usually correct the first time :)
Yep. I’m 100% sold on it. Thank you very much kind human. It’s crazy how used to Google I had become. Not thinking about features which would be helpful like simply raising/lowering a sites visibility. It even has done well for me when it comes to local searches! Truly a game changer.
Phind.com is pretty interesting