Kagi: ad-free privacy-focused search

A review of the Kagi search engine. A brief comparison of results to Google, Bing, and Brave. Discussion of the benefits (and the cost) of using a paid search engine.
kagi.com/
=== Timestamps ===
00:00 Introduction
01:48 The company
04:53 Search review
06:43 Features
10:11 The cost
12:40 Conclusion

[@zackshannon834]

I started paying for Kagi a few months ago and I'm Pretty happy with it. Privacy and good search results and it helps support a company that has a good missiom statement. I hope it keeps growing.

[@AaronPaden]

The custom domain ranking is a killer feature IMO. You search quite a lot, I'm surprised you didn't feel the need to use it. Though Kagi does do a bit of a better job filtering out the SEO-driven garbage by default than the competition.

[@zine_eddinex24]

underrated channel ❤

[@zine_eddinex24]

#privacy ❤

[@zine_eddinex24]

i wish they make freemium version too with little bit ads 😅

[@zine_eddinex24]

#kagi ❤

[@zine_eddinex24]

i like it

[@thequickestfox6106]

Everything about this was interesting and exciting, until the prices. They're just too high as a baseline. That's in competition with streaming services for a realistic shared user account. Which in the scheme of 'family' plans is still just too high. $14pm for only 2 users? $2 solo $5 couple and $10 family are much more realistic cost breaks (and just scrap the search limits on them all). I would like to use this, my wife is also privacy motivated and would like to use it, but I couldn't convince her at $14. The perceived value is just too low. I wonder if bundling AI has given them a higher cost burden to amortize due to the compute time? Great video, nice summary and comparison of the services, and I agree with the conclusions.

[@luffydobrasil1758]

how much do you (and her) spend on buying products you didn't even know existed until they were advertised to you by Google?

[@thequickestfox6106]

@@luffydobrasil1758 going to be a big ole goose egg (zero). Neither of us is that kind of person. But we are both the kind of people who buy products in plain packaging so that we don't see excessive visual clutter and advertisements. So it's more, we'd like a search engine that's doing what it's meant to, without the UI being highly optimized for add placements and putting visual clutter in the way.

[@aaryan45]

Will stick to Brave search for the time-being

[@damianicely]

Ecosia is ethical and good

[@yellowked]

Ecosia is Bing in disguise, if I'm not mistaken, so not very good search results. And all this "plant a tree" stuff in the end is just a marketing BS that will change nothing except make you feel you are doing something. You're saving the planet automatically, without lifting a finger, good job, go back to sleep

[@LasparkOficial]

Having options is also a good thing EDIT: Also Ecosia uses Bing search to fund its mission, and some people have strong feelings against Microsoft

[@menstrualdissonance]

I like the dog mascot but im not paying 10 dollars a month for a search engine

[@alomac8976]

Kagi sounds cool, but money is elusive...

[@yellowked]

$10 per month is insane tbh

[@ChimbzZ]

Why? People pay more for music and tv streaming? I believe our main problem is that we, as a society, aren’t used to paying for software. We trade convenience for privacy. I’d pay for search if I could easily own my media

[@severitas1]

duckduckgo?

[@yellowked]

DDG is basically Bing. Not very good search results

[@severitas1]

@@yellowked true, but at least does not take information from the user and you can desable the IAs, something that in the next years gonna be difficult to do

[@yellowked]

@@severitas1 Absolutely. But neither does Brave Search. And it provides better results, imo AI there is as useless, but you can turn it off

[@klebleonard]

@@severitas1 ddg has censorships, it use to be good, now there are better privacy focused alternatives, its not worth using anymore

[@GamingPenguinEnthusiast]

10 bucks for 'private' search while you can get VPN for 5 bucks and have this and more ...

[@Aygross]

It's not only about ads.

[@beni2am]

vpn doesn't make your search private, without tracking and ad free

[@yellowked]

The majority, if not all, of big VPN providers are basically scam. They do gather and sell your data even if they say they don't

[@larrythehedgehog]

If you think VPNs are still private in 2024 you're crazy.

[@ericmackrodt9441]

You know that if you are using Google with a vpn, it's still tracking you right?