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Re:Update to Kagi Search Pricing by rippercushions on Thursday March 09, 2023 @02:29AM (#35079039)
I used to use DDG, but the search results were so bad that I had to !g all the time. With Kagi, the results (which are mixed from various services, not just Bing) are actively superior to Google (so much less spam!) almost all the time, and the only Google search service I still use regularly is Maps.

That said, while I've been happily paying $10/mo for the pro plan for a while, I'm not convinced the 1000 searches/mo will suffice. Guess I'll find out soon enough.

Update: I checked https://kagi.com/settings?p=consumption and to my surprise I'm averaging under 20 searches a day total, even though Kagi is my main search engine on both mobile and desktop. So looks like I'll be OK after all.

Re:Update to Kagi Search Pricing by sorwin on Thursday March 09, 2023 @04:34AM (#35079673)
Sadly, for programming, I've had to use Google quite a few times lately.

Their raise feature is nice, but always finding stack overflow (because I raised it) on top of ACTUAL documentation for a specific topic kinda ruins it.

Re:Update to Kagi Search Pricing by D13Fd on Thursday March 09, 2023 @09:09AM (#35081297)
>Their raise feature is nice, but always finding stack overflow (because I raised it) on top of ACTUAL documentation for a specific topic kinda ruins it.

So you changed the results, and now you are complaining because the results are changed? I don't get it.

Re:Update to Kagi Search Pricing by Volundr on Thursday March 09, 2023 @12:17PM (#35083697)
I think it makes sense. They boosted stack overflow because they think it's often relevant, but not necessarily always the best resource. But now it's always #1 when oftentimes there is a clearly better resource. They just wanted it to be #2 instead of #10.

Basically they are wishing the boost feature had room for more nuance.

Re:Update to Kagi Search Pricing by dns_snek on Thursday March 09, 2023 @04:11PM (#35086780)
There is a bit more room for nuance, you can pin domains, which places them above "raised" domains. I've pinned MDN and official documentation sources, raised StackOverflow and blocked SO clones. It works well for me but YMMV.
Re:Update to Kagi Search Pricing by sshine on Thursday March 09, 2023 @07:33AM (#35080566)
Thanks for providing the link.

I used 517 searches in February.

For March I look to be using 700 searches.

Seems like the pro plan will be sufficient for me.

Re:Update to Kagi Search Pricing by raiyni on Thursday March 09, 2023 @09:14AM (#35081339)
Flip side, it's not uncommon for me to do 200+ searches a day. My lowest month was 900 searches but I went over 1800 frequently. Not worth $25/m for me personally at that point. I was sold on the idea of being grandfathered in at $10/m...
Re:Update to Kagi Search Pricing by mathgorges on Thursday March 09, 2023 @05:13PM (#35087539)
You can still be grandfathered into unlimited, for the next year anyway.

I just updated my monthly subscription to annual for just that purpose.