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Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month | Kagi Blog (blog.kagi.com)
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Kagi is a paid alternative to ad-supported search engines like Google and DuckDuckGo. It has recently revised its pricing model, reducing the cost for a plan with unmetered searches from $25 per month to $10.

Kagi boasts the following (and more) features:

  • Blocking or boosting specific domains in your search results
  • "Lenses", which are individual setting profiles (e.g. region locks, domain whitelists) that can be applied to search queries
  • All of the Bangs that DuckDuckGo has (e.g. type "!yt" in front of your query to immediately search on youtube.com)
  • Universal Summarizer, which works with any website, PDF document, YouTube video and more

This blog post goes into full details about Kagi's capabilities.

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[–] festus@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably a good pricing decision. To avoid hitting the 300/month usage I kept DDG as default and only used Kagi for more complex searches. If I upgrade to this I could then keep Kagi as default.

[–] sylverstream@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How does ddg compare? I've tried kagi, but didn't find it much better than ddg. Perhaps I should try again.

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Similar to what other people mentioned, I find it good at filtering out the obvious SEO spam. Otherwise the top 3 results of a search aren't really different.