@arstechnica I'm not surprised, I've been assuming this for a while.
The problem is that all these AI companies just plug in a search engine and expected to work.
Most search engines these days suck, so if your base is bad, your results will be bad.
That's why I love @kagihq cause they're search first, AI second. They have a solid search engine, which then also makes the ai searching much better. WHO WOULD HAVE EXPECTED
#Kagi
Reminder that #kagi is all in on AI to the point of using AI to decide what news is "healthy" for you to read, using AI to summarize said news for you, and suggesting that this makes news reporting unbiased
Absolute joke company and I cannot believe they've tricked so many people into thinking they're the cure to Google and Microsoft's AI bullshit
Today's @kagihq changelog is honestly kind of a massive deal for privacy stuff:
- Human readable privacy policy page
- Privacy pass (an open source, cryptographic verifiable way of doing searches through Kagi without them being able to see who you are)
- Official tor service
Announcing Kagi Privacy Pass!
Kagi already respects your privacy when you search. With Privacy Pass, we’re taking it a step further by adding an extra layer of anonymity to ensure your searches are completely unlinkable to your account
Learn more: https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-privacy-pass
Our Kagi vs Google comparison is up on @tilvids 
https://tilvids.com/w/qMdVJpGvE6aZUKE2RoP1eu
Follow our channel here: @kagi
Open bark for artists! We love our Doggo mascot, and we know our community feels the same.
This March, we're excited to feature community-created versions of our beloved Doggo on the Kagi search homepage.
We'd love for you to participate! Details: https://form.jotform.com/250303185469053
#Kagi is implementing a pricing model that I’d like to see more often around.
Subscribers churn is a metric dreaded by all business owners.
If enough paying users leave your product, investors usually start to panic.
That’s the main reason behind the Hotel California subscriptions (you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave). It’s the reason why subscribing to a service can be done in a click, but unsubscribing often requires a voice call with a customer service agent, a letter signed with your blood, a fax, a telegram and the sacrifice of a goat on a full moon night.
Tell business owners that they have to maximize annual recurring revenue and minimize churn, and that their bonuses will depend on that, and they’ll do anything within the borders of legality to achieve it - just like the machine that was tasked to build nails more efficiently, and turned the whole world into a nails factory.
But what if there is another way?
Subscriptions to Kagi will automatically enter a dormant state after 1-2 months without being used.
It means that you won’t pay for services that you don’t use, that your credit will be refunded, and you start paying again when you start using the service again.
Think of it for a moment: someone who doesn’t use your product for a couple of months is probably someone with a high chance of churn. So instead of keeping them in at all costs, you just dont charge them for stuff they don’t use. Then they won’t even mind having a subscription that they don’t use but don’t even pay for. And the business can show strong user retention metrics to their investors.
Millions of folks with business school degrees around the world, thousands of pieces of literature on pricing strategies, and nobody has yet thought that this is the best ethical win-win?
We added more comics on Kagi's Small Web!
Now is the perfect time to celebrate independent creators and embrace the creative spirit of the web:
On this Data Privacy Day, choose a search engine that puts you first. No ads. No tracking. No compromise. Just the results you want, on your terms.
(Illustration by @chazhutton for Kagi)
Why do I think this is important? Because the web is now filled with LLM-generated shit and Google et al are making finding things worse, not better.
So we need to go back 20 years to web rings and blogrolls and other ways of finding content made by people for people. And I think the #Kagi small web lens is a small (pun intended) but useful way to helping people access information that people put online because they cared enough to blog about it.
It was easy to get personal blogs added to the Kagi small web!
I'm happy to help add others' blogs -- especially queers, women, POC, and non-techies -- just comment on this post or send me a DM.
Kagi's current blog requirements are at https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb but in short:
* Personal blog with RSS feed
* No ads, spam, LLM content, etc
* A post within the last year
* English-only (but I'm keeping a list of those in other langs for when they accept them)
Boosts welcome.
One of the things that I love about the #Kagi search engine is that it surfaces relevant "small web" sites, like personal blogs. This is great because there's a lot of useful info in those!
They're now curating a small web set for artists (illustrators, comics, etc) and I want to help ensure that #queer artists are being represented. Point me to queer artist websites and I'll help get them added!
Ditto blogs of queers too!
I'm very happy to see @kagihq joining Peertube with their inaugural video below about what makes Kagi independent search special!
https://tilvids.com/w/twGQeYV9c1TGwMmbdXtY2q
Remember to follow their Peertube account at @kagi and boost to encourage and show them the effort is appreciated! Also do check out their excellent lenses feature, shown in the video.
The translation widget inside Kagi search results now uses our own recently launched Kagi Translate technology.
Kagi Translate has zero tracking - a powerful translator that respects your privacy without compromising on quality: https://translate.kagi.com/
We're on @pixelfed 
Give us a follow here: https://pixelfed.social/i/web/profile/781653547650594294
It seems the feature that Kagi users on Mastodon seemed most excited about in 2024 is the AI image filter for search results:
https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/exclude-ai-images.html
What else did you love and would like to see more of?
Text to speech is here on Kagi Translate! Listen to search results and articles when reading isn't convenient.
Plus, we now show romanized versions of non-Latin text, making it easier to understand and pronounce content in unfamiliar scripts.
Try it out: https://translate.kagi.com/
Kagi Translate has zero trackers and supports over 240+ languages.
This is why we built Kagi. Pure search, relevant results, zero ads and trackers.
Comic by DanbyDraws: https://danbydraws.com
H1 Gallery features Kagi on marketing headlines of the week:
"Kagi's headline 'Liberate your search' is a powerful and provocative message. Here's why this headline works in the very crowded and Google-dominated world of search" 
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