It's made the internet usable again. I'm honestly surprised how much of difference there is. I'd really recommend people give it a shot. (there's a free trial for it)

[–] verdigris@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Isn't Kagi an AI company with a bunch of shady shit going on? I'm always extremely skeptical of these posts.

[–] jezza@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

I never heard anything before this, so I looked around, and there's definitely some posts about it.

https://www.osnews.com/story/139270/do-not-use-kagi/

https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html

I'll have to give them a read.

For now, ignore my recommendation, as I don't yet fully know my stance on this, with the information provided.

However, I can say that I've been super happy with the search results. I don't use their email service. Just the search and the access to all of the LLMs that are out there.

[–] cschreib@programming.dev 4 points 6 months ago

I don't know what shady shit you're referring to. They do AI, but I don't use any of that. IMO their core strength is the search engine and how it works for you rather than against.

[–] meliaesc@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (4 children)

A paid search engine... 🤔

[–] dan@upvote.au 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Many people would prefer a paid service over an ad supported one.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Many people would prefer that their search history isn't associated to personal and payment information.

[–] meliaesc@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I generally agree with that, but as an aggregation service it would need to justify not providing any actual content/information with its price structure. The same argument against AI models trained with user data.

[–] monobot@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

It still costs money for hardware and hosting. Scraping web and training AI ain't cheap.

[–] filcuk@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 months ago

We've been conditioned. Everything has a cost.

[–] Corigan@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

I'd be curious to sign up if the paid version wasn't search capped.

I search a lot of random stuff or typo etc I feel like I'd burn through the allowance in 2 weeks

[–] jezza@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

People expect a free thing to always have your best interests at heart.

Kagi makes sense to me. I pay for a product.

(just as a random side note, lenses alone would make it worth it)