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Re:Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved w... by raffraffraff on Friday December 08, 2023 @07:32AM (#38568241)
Some other stuff works better at Google, like "train from Heathrow to London" gives you the next 4 trains right there in the results. In fact it can give accurate results, link ups, walking estimates between bus routes, where the official transport app or website sucks (like Dublin buses). Oh and shop opening hours, cinema times etc.

Kagi has gotten better at directly providing answers (like 15lbs in kg) but it's still lagging.

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Re:Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved w... by hug on Friday December 08, 2023 @07:41AM (#38568312)
I don't know the term for the box that comes up at the top of results and gives you suggestions. I'm going to call it the whatever-box.

The google whatever-box is more frequent than the one at Kagi. Is it better?

The number of times I have googled a question and had weird and probably completely false information inserted (using reddit as a source, no less) is ... well, it's more than I'd like. It's at the point that I try to deliberately ignore the whatever-box at the top of the google search results page.

And if I google for a product, the whatever-box gives me some very useful... price aggregates? ads? reviews? Who knows.

I certainly wouldn't go back to google search just because the whatever-box appears more often.

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Re:Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved w... by raffraffraff on Saturday December 09, 2023 @04:08AM (#38580083)
Fair enough. But when I'm getting a bus and train to visit my parents I will always use the whatever box because it's instantly there with the right info whereas the shitty official website is slow, horrible, demands precise start and end locations or just offers me a PDF of the timetable. Kagi links me to the shitty website.
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Re:Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved w... by neurostimulant on Saturday December 09, 2023 @10:47AM (#38582829)
Those are Google Maps features vertically integrated with Google search. Kagi probably won't ever have this feature (unless if they have Kagi Maps in the future?).
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