Does anyone have experience with the Kagi (paid subscription) search engine?
It is supposedly privacy respecting, ad free, and no sponsored results. It has its own crawler and might aggregate results from other search engines.
It also supports privacy pass to prove paid status while remaining anonymous. (How (well) does that work?)
Although the privacy angle is always a large dose of “trust us” when it comes to online services… my experience over the past 2 years have been nothing less than awesome with this search engine.
I have control over removing sites entirely from results eg pinterest or instagram.
Clean AI-free image seach.
AI proxy to all the popular ones via their Assistant.
A summarizer and page translator.
Good results that are on topic and with much less SEO or AI slop than DDG or Google.
I get to choose when I want an AI generated answer vs a search, simply by appending a question mark to my query.
I’m probably not even using everything they have to offer but they have brought sanity to my online searches.
Thanks!
Are you using “privacy pass” with it?
Which browser(s) do you use with it?
Didn’t know about this paid service. Sounds really interesting and ethical too.
Which plan did you choose? Are you satisfied with their [standard] AI proxy?