Kagi Search

Sentiment is strongly positive but fractious around pricing, sourced almost entirely from HackerNews power users. Loyalty is extreme: one highly upvoted user calls Kagi 'the single most critical service I worry about losing' and says they would stay even if Kagi 'octupled the price.' Performance evidence is concrete: a user ran a three-way test on 'grzyby marynowane' (Polish pickled mushrooms) and found Kagi matched Google's recipe/shop results but returned ~20 results per page vs Google's 10 and continued with relevant results where Google's page ended; the same user says Kagi beats DDG and has a quick region switcher. The summarization feature is called 'an insane time saver' for triaging cybersecurity research and clickbait conference material ('Critical Ignoring'). The customization layer — per-user block lists, boost/downrank of specific domains (e.g., Pinterest, low-quality Quora answers) — is repeatedly cited as the killer differentiator, with one user noting it removes 'technically not spam' sites that statistical spam filters won't catch. Pricing is the dominant negative thread: recurring demands for '$5 unlimited,' discomfort with per-search caps (~300/month referenced as insufficient), and subscription fatigue ('I don't want another subscription at that price point'). Defenders counter with unit economics: external index costs are real, Bing raised API prices significantly (founder reportedly active in threads), and one user computes that equivalent GPT-4 usage would cost far more than a Kagi subscription. Structural skepticism persists: Kagi is US-based and for-profit, and users invoke Google's post-IPO decline ('Don't be evil... didn't survive their IPO') as the long-term trust risk. Business-viability debates largely conclude Kagi 'already works as a business' with incentives aligned to users — they pay, so Kagi optimizes result quality over ad-driven dwell time, a contrast users explicitly draw to Google's 'perverse incentives of free search.'

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