I’ve heard good things about Kagi, but I can’t justify the cost (especially as its USD)
If it were half the cost or if all the tiers had unlimited searches I’d probably subscribe, but I don’t want to ration the searches the way I used to have to ration dialup minutes.
This is what I felt about Neeva, too. Metered searches meant I only used it when I “needed” it… By which point I was mired in search results and focused on my Google Fu and completely forgot about Neeva.
I get that it costs money to run, but they needed a long free trial to get me hooked, then a reasonably priced unlimited tier. I was never going to use a site that restricts my search volume.
There was a limit to Neeva? I payed $55/year for unlimited searches, but maybe I was in some tier that became unavailable or something.
I think that has set my price expectations.
iirc, their trial tier was 100 searches total, or something like. I could never adequately test it so I never converted to a paid user.
Boom, I’m in the same boat.
Boom, I’m in the same boat.
Boom, I’m in the same boat.
I pay for it, it’s worth every penny.
@irasponsible I am on month 2 of paying for Kagi, and I am not sure it’s worth it at the current price point. I enjoy the privacy and speed, but not 10 dollars a month enjoy.
even at US$5 a month, I don’t know. I feel like most searches I do are just to get to the website I already know the name of, and I’d blow through 300 pretty fast.
I was one of Neeva’s die hard users. I was bummed but not surprised when they emailed out saying they were pivoting to AI.
I used them for a while as well. Their search was good, and their auto-generated answers they provided was very decent. I loved the idea of non-ad supported search. For me, their problem was their value proposition. You could use search for free, but you have to pay them if you want them to index your github/dropbox/etc accounts, so they could be searchable from the same searchbox. I had no need to have any private accounts searched, so never needed those licensed features.
what is your go to for search now?
I’ve been using Duck Duck Go, but I mainly use it because bangs make it easy to search elsewhere when DDG isn’t surfacing useful stuff. So I don’t entirely endorse it.
Google is still the GOAT for very specific questions. Like “docker network bridge partial packet loss” , throw it into bing/dfg/qwang and you just end up with “what is a network bridge in docker”
https://duckduckgo.com/?hps=1&q=docker+network+bridge+partial+packet+loss&ia=qa
looks good to me, with the first result being from StackOverflow.
I was a Neeva user. It was good, but no better than DDG. Google is so bad these days that it isn’t much better than DDG, aside from regional things
I just use DDG, and I was told in a different post that it fetches results through Bing.
Much like what you said, Google is better than other engines with regional results being a non-US person.
Is https://www.qwant.com a good alternative?
