Kagi Search Engine

Discussions center on Kagi search engine's features, backend reliance on Google and other indexes, comparisons to DuckDuckGo and Google in quality and results, extensions for default browser usage, and personalization options like bangs and domain blocking.

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lewisflude Nov 24, 2023 View on HN

Are you able to use Kagi as a default search engine via the extension in the US?

slaw Aug 3, 2023 View on HN

Kagi uses Google search results.https://help.kagi.com/kagi/why-kagi/kagi-vs-google.html

goneri May 25, 2024 View on HN

I'm a Kagi user and unfortunately they are reselling Google Search results.

m00dy Sep 21, 2023 View on HN

anyone paying for kagi here ? how's it comparing to duckduckgo results ?

ilaksh Sep 1, 2022 View on HN

Google has a search API. Does Kagi use this on the backend?

ipaddr Nov 5, 2023 View on HN

I barely see anything on kagi their search results are as thin as a default searx instance

xnx Sep 1, 2023 View on HN

What's an example search that's better on Kagi?

MrDresden Oct 4, 2023 View on HN

Honestly wondering why you'd send the query through Kagi if it is only going to ping ddg/google anyway? Does Kagi do some filtering on the responses?

prh8 Jul 23, 2023 View on HN

This looks really great! Would love to get Kagi as a search engine option

mrweasel Jan 22, 2026 View on HN

So you use Google. Kagi still rely on Googles index.