Comment by claytongulick

I'm a deep technical nerd, but I approach Kagi from a basic user perspective.

Things I love and can't live without:

- When I search for something, I don't have to deal with weeks of whatever I searched for coming up in ads on every web page I visit.

- I don't feel like "the man" is snooping on me in some sort of weird dark social credit score thing. (I literally got a call from Google once offering me a job based on what I'd been searching for. Flattering, but totally freaked me out)

- The quality is good for non-local things

- I'm the customer, not the product

- That makes things like blocking or enhancing sites possible

What I'd like to see improve:

- I don't want AI. I don't want summaries, I don't want hallucinations, I don't want assistants. I don't want it.

- Local results and map integration. When I click on a local result, actually having the map go to the result I clicked on. Currently this doesn't work well.

- Hours for local businesses.

I find myself still going to google for these things, and while it doesn't seem like a lot, aside from work stuff those kinds of searches are probably 80% of what I need. Where can we go for dinner tonight that's near by and still open? Who has all-you-can-eat deals near by? Where can I find some floating shelves to put in my office near by?

Those are all examples of things that Google does really well, and I don't have much luck with on Kagi.

I agree with the author that I'd rather see the quality there improve before AI features.