• Zero@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Any word on Windows? Despite the discourse around Kagi using Yandex, they did advise me that they are still building thier own indexes that are planned to eventually replace thirds party ones.

    I’m still not a huge fan of the overuse of AI, but I do think Kagi is on the right track in a lot of other areas.

    edit: I’m in the Linux community… Ignore the first sentence 😅

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        16 hours ago

        Maybe “overuse” isn’t the right word. “Over-investment” maybe.

        I think the Universal Summarizer and Quick Answer are okay but the Assistant just doesn’t do it for me. No one is forcing me to use it or pay for it however and I don’t run the company, so it’s a moot point…

        They’ve reiterated that AI is central to their mission, I just don’t find the LLM interfacing very compelling personally.

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        Probably that engines are putting Ai in the forefront of searches lately

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          Kagi doesn’t do that. It doesn’t even show you an AI response unless you specifically request it.

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            I wish there was a cheaper plan that didn’t involve AI at all. Like, I don’t care to have X prompts every month. I’d like to pay just for the engine.

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              17 hours ago

              You do not pay anything different for AI prompts. You should really actually try the product before you make up all these things about it.

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                You do not pay anything different for AI prompts. You should really actually try the product before you make up all these things about it.

                But what you pay involves the calculated cost of using the AI, otherwise they’d be losing money if a lot of users were to make too many prompts. So it should be possible to have a lower price that didn’t give you any prompts.

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                  16 hours ago

                  The other poster is right… The base plans don’t contain any amount of “prompts” and are very reasonable /affordable.

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                    Yes, they made it unrestricted which means they’re charging you considering you can use it a lot. That’s what I mean. Using LLMs APIs isn’t free so it has a cost embedded, which they certainly calculated, or else they’d run the risk of it being abused.

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      So, duckduckgo also uses Yandex, right? I know Bing as their premier, but all these search engines use more than one source. I haven’t been able to see where any of them provide their entire list of sources. DDG and Kagi both previously listed Yandex and have since quietly disappeared their mention from their informational pages

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        16 hours ago

        The reference used to live here, iirc. They updated the language to say “all major search results providers” rather than listing the actual names as they did previously.