We're exploring new partnerships and integrations to elevate your search experience.

We'd be grateful if you take this quick survey to share the products and services you use and love:

https://form.jotform.com/250713784070354

Kagi empowers you to personalize your search results, allowing you to see more of what you prefer, less of what you don't, or block content entirely.

View the top domains that users create personalizations for: https://kagi.com/stats?stat=leaderboard

"Some targeted ads aren’t just annoying — they can be predatory and harmful, using people’s online behavioral data to reach vulnerable consumers that meet specific parameters."

This is why everything we build at Kagi is ad-free, tracking-free, and privacy-respecting.

https://epic.org/issues/consumer-privacy/online-advertising-and-tracking/

Based on the community's feedback, we’ve added a setting to always hide AI-generated images by default.

You can enable it on Settings > Search > AI

Beyond RAG: SEARCH-R1 integrates search engines directly into reasoning models
https://zurl.co/yXCtP
#ai #genai #rag #search-r1

This is beyond…

#LeMonde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to #US after a #search of his #phone & #computer revealed messages critical of #Trump's #science cuts, "which [says #CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated.

#law #geopolitics #USpol #authoritarianism #dictatorship #FreeSpeech #ThoughtPolice #Nazis #ViewpointDiscrimination
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/03/19/etats-unis-un-chercheur-francais-refoule-pour-avoir-exprime-une-opinion-personnelle-sur-la-politique-menee-par-l-administration-trump_6583618_3210.html

Last month I signed up for #kagi #search - way better than Google in my experience. This article says $10/month, which gets you unlimited search, but $5/month gets you 300 searches a month and signing up for a year gets you a 10% discount, so I spent $50 for 3600 searches over the next year and if it turns out I exhaust that in 9 or 10 months, I'll still be ahead. I tracked my usage during a trial period and do not think I'm going to exhaust it in half a year.

https://www.theverge.com/web/631636/kagi-review-best-search-engine

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/ai-search-engines-give-incorrect-answers-at-an-alarming-60-rate-study-says/

#AI #search engines cite #incorrect #sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says
CJR study shows AI search services #misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.
Benj Edwards

..."A new study from Columbia Journalism Review's Tow Center for Digital Journalism finds serious accuracy issues with generative AI models used for news searches. The research tested eight AI-driven search tools equipped with live search functionality a"...

AI #search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says

Misinformation has always been present on the internet, but #AI certainly isn't helping here.

Additionally, many AI tools ignored Robot Exclusion Protocol settings. AKA they said that robots.txt doesn't apply to them.

(Grok 3's error rate is 94%, lol.)

#misinformation

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/ai-search-engines-give-incorrect-answers-at-an-alarming-60-rate-study-says/

Kagi is looking for a visionary Head of Business Development to help us grow and expand our impact.

If you're a driven self-starter who's genuinely excited about making Kagi the best way for people to discover information, consider this unique opportunity:

https://kagi.peopleforce.io/careers/v/108201-head-of-business-development

No, #Google, I wasn't likely referring to that. You are garbage. Taking up valuable real estate on the #search results page. Wasting resources.

Since March 5, my #Mastodon posts no longer appear in #search results. One other user at least noticed it too:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/34176

Anyone else, perhaps?

LOL. I did a #Google #Search and that #AI Overview crap at the top, all its sources were from Quora. God help us all.

Quora is informative, but not trustworthy. It's not trustworthy because there is no fact checking the answers and no credential checking on those answering the questions. Answers can also reflect personal opinions and biases, which may not always align with objective facts or widely accepted knowledge.

In the age where AI slop is force-fed everywhere, can we please just go back to search engines that does WHERE search_index_item LIKE '%my search keyword%' and nothing more, please?

How many years I needed to learn how to search my own posts. It's too easy. Type into the #search:

from:@username searchwords
or
from:me searchwords

It also works (for yourself) if you have disabled being in the public search.
Thanks @MythingPerson for the 2nd, much easier method!

What Is The Future of Search Engines?

https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/170ee8cf-a6f3-4d7d-8247-304feffb43b1

it's nice to see reporting that doesn't mince words.

"Google’s featured snippet is pulling in an Amazon AI summary of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi manifesto Mein Kampf that calls it “a true work of art” in the latest AI-related fuckup affecting top search results."

https://www.404media.co/google-amazon-ai-search-mein-kampf-reviews/

Having ditched my subscriptions to NYT (long ago), WaPo and the LA Times, I'm glad to be a paid subscriber to the journalism from places like @404mediaco.

It is mind-blowing how in GPU-powered LLM age most software products have completely butchered usual, properly working, offline, string-matching search

AI slop
Working search

Search without the noise.

(Illustration by @chazhutton for Kagi)