The more disappointing part for me is that they didn’t keep the promise of grandfathering plans. I’ve lost confidence in them and will most likely cancel my subscription. Luckily search is mostly fungible.
I only use about 350-450 searches a month at present, so this pricing change won't affect me. However, I've not been crazy about Kagi's search quality lately, and I'm not convinced that more deeply integrating AI into the results will solve that. I'd rather the roughly 55% of my unused subscription went to improving the core product, but I'm not going to cancel yet because Kagi still provides the value of being comparatively confidential with my data.
(When it is revealed — as the narrative of this story demands it must be — that they sell you to advertisers like everybody else, I won't be surprised but I will be disappointed)
Every search engine seems to be scrambling to throw AI at their product: is it because they've thoroughly tested it, and it definitely improves the results? Or is it because it's a bullet point in the feature list? Feels like there is potential, but it also feels like a gold rush too, so I'm sort of waiting skeptically to see how it will shake out.
Yeah, I will probably subscribe as they introduce the family mode.
Quality of the results is way better than Google and derivatives. I can once again find small blogs, various fora etc. with genuine people discussing their first-hand experience instead of generic ad farms.
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[ 5.4 ms ] story [ 23.3 ms ] threadI've cross checked results when I got stuff I wasn't really expecting and it was nearly the same as google anyway.
(When it is revealed — as the narrative of this story demands it must be — that they sell you to advertisers like everybody else, I won't be surprised but I will be disappointed)
Every search engine seems to be scrambling to throw AI at their product: is it because they've thoroughly tested it, and it definitely improves the results? Or is it because it's a bullet point in the feature list? Feels like there is potential, but it also feels like a gold rush too, so I'm sort of waiting skeptically to see how it will shake out.
Quality of the results is way better than Google and derivatives. I can once again find small blogs, various fora etc. with genuine people discussing their first-hand experience instead of generic ad farms.