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@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

kite.kagi.com/

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

kite.kagi.comKite

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

kagi.com/changelog#6172 #kagi

kagi.comKagi Search ChangelogBetter search results with no ads. Welcome to Kagi (pronounced kah-gee), a paid search engine that gives power back to the user.

#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?

https://kagi.com/changelog#6155

kagi.comKagi Search ChangelogBetter search results with no ads. Welcome to Kagi (pronounced kah-gee), a paid search engine that gives power back to the user.
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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.

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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 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.

GitHubGitHub - kagisearch/smallweb: Kagi Small WebKagi Small Web. Contribute to kagisearch/smallweb development by creating an account on GitHub.

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!

mastodon.social/@kagihq/113828

MastodonKagi HQ (@kagihq@mastodon.social)We plan on featuring a new category beyond blogs on Kagi's Small Web initiative to include artists. We'd love your help identifying the artists we should include: https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/edit/83vCapTSCQOvTKi4k-d9uNXr/ [Further context: https://blog.kagi.com/small-web] #Kagi #SmallWeb #Indie #Art