Comment by joshstrange

I didn’t know about the T-shirt thing and I didn’t know about Brave either. The email stuff is also new to me and I have zero interest in it.

At the end of the day, Kagi was a way for me to filter out certain sites and raise/lower others. To be honest I’ve considered turning off the ranking modifications, I often have to scroll to find the business I’m searching for’s website because I’ve up-ranked SO/GitHub/HN and the like. It’s more frustrating than useful. I wish there was a way to up-rank the “definitive website for a brand” when I search.

Furthermore, the lack of local results is painful. I just have to go to Google to find the restaurant/business in my town since Kagi seems unable/unwilling to do that. And in that vein, all my !bangs seems to have disappeared which is frustrating, even more so since on mobile it won’t save new ones (last time I tried) and manually going to Google gets redirected to Kagi due to the way their extension (has to?) works.

I’ve been paying for a while now and while the AI doesn’t bother me (I don’t use it) the Brave stuff turns me off massively. I don’t know how I’ll decide but I found this post (and the emails the founder sent) very informative.