I hate Pinterest lol, best thing about Kagi is being able to block whole sites and it remembers your preferences. I may come back to Kagi but I didn't feel like funding their AI features development. Now Im using Searx and 4get cause they're free.

You're not the only one. They have a leaderboard and the top 7 results are various Pinterest domains.

I never got Pinterest results on Kagi to begin with

It's a very minor annoyance and well worth it in my opinion.

I was searching for a book quote for over a year. I tried every search engine, tried changing the terms, checking back several times every few weeks or so, but couldn't find anything even close. I tried kagi and it was literally the very first result on my very first search.

I haven't looked back and have never had an issue finding what I'm searching for since.

You pay instead of seeing ads, so they need the account. Remembers you, though, so you just login once. Plus they have a solution for incognito/private windows too.

I really like it, has some cool features.

You can create a search-link that includes your token so you can also use it in incognito or if you are logged out for some reason.

You do it once.

It is. And it's also terrible for privacy, but people do it with google as well.

Signing up and logging in isn't a problem imo. I wouldn't even mind if I had to pay for searches, but I'm not going to make it a subscription service. Unless they add an option to do something like buy 1000 searches that never expire, its not something I'd considered. I do think they beat out competitors like google with their results pretty consistently though based on the trial.

The concerns are about the credit card you use to pay.

The argument is that they can associate the card with your searches.

As far as I know they don't keep search data. I'm personally happy with them

Never heard any issues with Privacy, but I've heard issues about them using Brave search Results as part of their results.

Yeah, lots of opinions, a few facts: one of the discussions.

That really depends on your use case and how valuable web search is for your daily life.

I've personally tried Google, Bing, DDG, Brave search, and ChatGPT. Kagi is consistently able to find what I'm searching for more quickly and accurately than anything else, which has been very valuable for me in my personal and professional life.

It's easily worth the cost in result quality and time saving for me personally, but that doesn't mean the same will apply to you or anyone else.

As far as stand out features, there aren't really any that I can think of. It just gives me the results I'm looking for without any bullshit to wade through.

It's the first one I've paid for. And it is that much better than the free ones I used before imho.

It was disabled by default on my account I think