Comment by 💀 requiem

Kagi is fantastic, far far better than any other mainstream search engine these days. Fortunately the "AI" stuff in it gets out of your way and doesn't force itself on you. You can end a query with a question mark to get a short summary of web search results WITH REFERENCES rather than just it making stuff up. Or you don't ask it a question and that's that. Redirections, RegEx based URL rewrites, etc. are incredibly useful. Being able to lower / raise search result rankings and block domains gets you out of a lot of slop websites or simply stuff you don't want to see. Image search has "Exclude AI" settings. It's the best there is.

Aug 07 · 4 months ago

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I just wanted to mention, if you don't like some of the extra features that DDG may introduce/show in their results, just use the lite version, that's my default search engine: https://start.duckduckgo.com/lite/

I actually like AI quite a bit, but I like it when I want it, not when I'm not expecting/asking for it.

In a professional scientific setting, where details matter, I really find the AI useless and annoying. I should know, it mangles my own journal articles.

Well then you also should enjoy DDG Lite, not an AI in sight. :)

Original Post

Would you pay for search? — Arstechnica has a front page article about Kagi, a paid search engine. The argument is somewhat compelling to me at least. It's thus: (paraphrased) "...