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@kagihq is it worth paying for search though? I don’t really see the advantages still.
@jglypt We make the case for it here:
https://help.kagi.com/kagi/why-kagi/why-pay-for-search.html
But if you're not convinced, what would make this page more compelling?
You can also check out all the customizable features that come with using paid search - if you navigate to "Search Features" under User Guide in the sidebar.
@jglypt @kagihq I've been using Kagi for about a year now, and I can honestly say it's most definitely worth paying for search if you use the internet for anything more than extreme casual 'I just look at facebook' use. Extremely happy with Kagi! (although I'm still waiting for that t-shirt to be delivered!)
@alanb Thank you, Alan! And that shirt is slowly but surely making its way over to you
@jglypt @kagihq IMO it depends on how often you search and how much you'd benefit from Kagi's features.
For example, Kagi has ranking customizations, lenses, and a really good spam filter. This lets me pull up the documentation for a random API in ~5 seconds compared to ~25 seconds on Google or Bing.
This isn't a big deal to most people, but it saves me a lot of sanity when I have a line of 20 students who want my help debugging their data analysis code because I don't have to awkwardly pause for 30 seconds to find the actual documentation for some R package in a sea of Medium posts.
@jglypt @kagihq I've been a subscriber for about 12 months and I mostly don't think about search at all anymore, in the same way that nobody thought about search much back when Google was prioritizing quality rather than profit.
I'm not sure about Kagi, the company, and the people behind it, but right now the search product is definitely worth it.