Thoughts on KagiHQ? Is it worth paying for a search engine?
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So, not worth it.
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I've been using it for more than a year and it's worth every cent. It's not perfect, obviously, but it's already so good. Useful results (no SEO crap) no ads, no tracking, great filtering tools (those alone, to me at least, are already worth paying for) and real cool features. If you have not done so already, get their 100 search trial account and you will see how you like it. I did that and I switched to a paid sub less than 3 days later.
When my first year ended I thought to myself, well, I could try to save me some money here and did not renew kinda yeah, Kagi's cool and all but why pay when there are free options? I ran back to Kagi in the same month I decided to not renew
I if I had to use a free search, it probably would be Brave Search, FYI
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They don't even run their own index anyway, they rely on other search engines too. Kinda like how DuckDuckGo uses Bing under the hood.
So you might as well use SearX anyway, same thing.
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Curious abt this too
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Will take a read thx !
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It is definitely miles ahead in finding genuine content, but paying 10 usd for unlimited or 5 usd for 300 searches is too much for my wallet. I'm hoping if they get enough users then maybe they can introduce another price lowering attempt or pray that I can opt into a family plan with friends.
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Thx for sharing. I do (happily) use Kagi as already stated in my other comment but I'm always willing to be more informed.
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And brave, the one run by this guy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich
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Since all your searches could be correlated to your account (subscription service) by Kagi, I consider that a major deal-breaker when discussing its privacy.
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On the Orion forums their staff consistently bullies people around
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I use the $5 plan. Basically for any time I’m searching for something I already know (weather, sports scores, particular website) I use ddg or brave (or bookmarks). When I’m looking for more nuanced things like programming questions, recipes, reviews, etc. I use Kagi. Works pretty well with bangs in Firefox
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I am not on a VPN and experience it with my phone, iPad and desktop sadly.
