Re:Two Upstart Search Engines Are Teaming Up to Take on Google
by bayindirh on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @06:27PM
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It's another feature of Kagi. They know they have thousands of results, but they provide you a single page of most relevant results. If you want to see more because you exhausted the page, there's a "more results" button at the bottom.
Kagi reduces mental load by default, and this is a good thing.
Re:Two Upstart Search Engines Are Teaming Up to Take on Google
by heraclius1729 on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @10:18PM
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That's an interesting positive spin on what is clearly a cost-cutting feature. I'm on the unlimited search tier, so it hasn't really been a big deal, but it's worth noting that clicking the "more results" button charges your account for an additional search too. Or at least it used to.
Re:Two Upstart Search Engines Are Teaming Up to Take on Google
by bayindirh on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @03:51AM
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I'm also on the unlimited search tier, and honestly never needed to reach for the more results button even once. Kagi always delivered.
Having a low number of results has a net benefit of lower cognitive load for me, so I like how Kagi returns less results, not more.
But "more results" is counted towards a new search, and I didn't know that. Thanks for pointing out.
The first result is almost assuredly the right one, but either they're ruling out a lot of pages as not-what-you-meant, or their index is really small.