Comment by 59percentmore
4 hours ago
The number of "Kagi" comments here is amusing (suspicious), considering how few people actually use Kagi.
4 hours ago
The number of "Kagi" comments here is amusing (suspicious), considering how few people actually use Kagi.
It's a niche service that is almost perfectly tailored to meet the needs of HN users.
It's a paid-only service, without ads - "you are not the product", that lets you hide results from popular (to the mainstream) sites like Instagram and Pinterest, and to filter out low-quality sources like W3Schools, while raising MDN and the Arch Linux wiki to the top.
Sometimes there is, actually, a vocal minority.
And at least I know that I am happy to talk about a product that I pay for. Is some of it because I feel like there's a sunk cost - the amount of money that I've paid into it? Yes, of course there is. Is it a good search engine? Yes.
Do I wish there were features added to it that they've promised for a while now? (namely being able to pay for more AI credits, especially if you paid a year in advance?) Yes.
HN is cringe with their influencer marketing, always have been.
Kagi, Claude, Rust, and other Canadian trash nobody will ever use in the real world.