Comment by 0x38B
2 years ago
Re: Kagi, I heard about it on HN, tried it for 100 searches, then subscribed. When I search for random JS and CSS things, MDN is the first result, and if it isn't, I can downrank whatever spammy site(s) are on top.
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I wish I had a local LLM trained to detect clickbait and or low-effort content. I imagine searching YouTube and having all the clickbait collapsed together (just like Kagi condenses listicles), with the remainder being potentially high-quality content. Don't know how feasible this is right now.
Just use the Kagi Summarizer on YouTube videos and you don’t have to waste time watching trash. It’s a great life hack.
How does that work? Does it scrape the auto-generated captions?
Yeah, it uses the auto-generated transcript.
I became a huge fan of Kagi after seeing it on hacker news too. It's amazing how good a search engine can be when it's not full of ads.
Yeah. At first I primarily used Kagi to move away from Google as a company, hoping for results that were equally good. But Google search actually feels crappy now in comparison.
Been paying for Kagi for 6+ months and very happy with it. I’m pretty anti subscriptions so that’s saying a lot for a service that is otherwise free.
I do have to dump into google for local searches every once in awhile, but otherwise happy with it.
I keep Google Maps around for a similar reason; Apple Maps works well, but things like business hours are wrong often enough for me to double-check in Google Maps.
Yep, same. Yelp is not nearly as good in Apple Maps but for in town directions it works great for me.
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