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Re:Kagi search reached 20k paying members on Thursday January 25, 2024 @10:36AM (#39130622)
!expert only works if you have access to the AI features. Right now, only available to users on the Ultimate plan. General release for all subscribers is end of February.
Re:What If Google Wasn't the Default? on Monday November 20, 2023 @07:21AM (#38346953)
When you experienced a bad result, did you do a direct comparison with the equivalent Google search?

I found myself questioning some of Kagi's search results when I first started using it and sometimes thought a search result was of poor quality, but whenever that happened, I did a direct comparison with Google whose result was equally bad.

I've now used Kagi for almost six months and have never found a search where Google provided better quality results. Except for image search.

Re:Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month on Friday September 22, 2023 @10:21AM (#37612418)
Kagi does have this feature but as an opt-in per bang. It's called "Allowed Quick Bangs": https://help.kagi.com/kagi/settings/search.html#overview
Re:Tell HN: ChatGPT cut off date now Jan 2022 on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @08:03AM (#37568752)
IIRC FastGPT uses web-search to answer questions.

Their API (for third-party devs) used to have an option for FastGPT to either allow or disallow web-search but they removed the option that disallowed it. So the API always uses web-search.

This doesn't mean that the FastGPT web client behaves the same, but I would suspect it.

Re:Kagi Small Web on Friday September 08, 2023 @02:41AM (#37430268)
Are English "Small Web" results included even if I use the "Sweden" search region?

I noticed the example result for useyourloaf wasn't included if I switched it to "Sweden" and not sure if this is just an oddity or if the entire feature is nerfed because I just leave my locale on all the time.

Re:Poll: How many logins/accounts do you have? on Monday May 22, 2023 @03:55AM (#36028575)
408 in Dashlane :)
Re:Show HN: Thoughts on Flash in 2023, in Flash, in 2023 on Friday April 21, 2023 @10:08AM (#35653997)
When I was a kid my mum would only let me use my PC every other weekday because she wanted me to spend less time playing games. I convinced her that on the non-game days she would let me use Game Maker on my PC instead :)

So I ended up using my PC every day of course. But I did spend a lot of time making games!

Re:Mac OS 9 on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @03:06AM (#33877027)
I have the same feelings about VS Code. JetBrains is working on a competitor (Fleet) that is running on the JVM and renders using Skia. But everywhere I keep seeing it get flack for not being web-based...
Re:Ask HN: What are some mentally healthy apps to have? on Friday June 10, 2022 @04:51AM (#31691652)
+1 for Authy. I like it because it has cloud sync and has a desktop app available as well.
Re:Blender 3.2 on Thursday June 09, 2022 @09:43AM (#31681027)
For a free, lightweight video editing with a UI similar to Premiere, I recommend Olive 1.0:

https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/

It's small, opens fast, and does a good job.