I am a Kagi user and have been for 7 months now. I signed up for the 300 searches per month plan because I felt like that would fit me well enough and it turns out I average 87 searches per month. That’s a lot lower than I thought it would be by quite a bit.
Do you find that your searches are higher quality than something like, say, DuckDuckGo?
Yeah, I’d say they’re pretty comparable. And you can add filters, so like for example, I have all of Reddit blocked out from searches.
That reddit filter will have less than an effect than it used to. Reddit blocked all crawlers except google.
Fair point.
Brave search works for Reddit
reddit recently updated their robots.txt to disallow all crawlers Google paid a bunch of money to have access to crawl reddit
You’ll still see old stuff, but crawlers that care about robots.txt will get no new information.
The best part of that robots.txt is:
Reddit believes in an open internet, but not the misuse of public content.
Sure Jan.
Reddit believes in
an openpay to access internet, but not themisuse ofpublic contentour content we didn’t make.
https://search.brave.com/search?q=site%3Areddit.com+trump&source=web&tf=pd Past day is not that old
A few possibilities,
- brave has state in the past they use the googlebot user agent, if all reddit does is check the useragnet, it won’t block brave. This does however mean brave is violating the robots.txt file.
- I saw some mentions of google fall back, I don’t know if they still do it, but that could be another possibility.
- Brave ignores robots.txt files
- Brave paid for access
No matter the reason, well behaving crawlers will no longer crawl reddit, Everything is disallowed in the robots.txt
User-agent: * Disallow: /
Oh 100%. You can try kagi out on a free trial, which is what I’m on. It’s nice because you get different search results that aren’t constrained to the Google algorithm.
What I mean by this, I search for recipes a lot, on Google all the recipes are identical. When I use Kagi, they differ with the main search team I want.
I plan on using Kagi and subbing when I have the money.
It’s better to pay for a product than be the product imho.
edit: for the recipes I mean on Google it’s the same promoted main steam food network bs, etc every. Single. Time. With Kagi I feel like it’s smaller people with recipes with more relevancy to the terms I type in.
Oh, wow. I’ve made 1,065 in July alone! My 7-month average (from January 2024 through today) is 811/month.
Oh wow. That’s a whole different league of searching. LOL.
I didn’t know if 300 would be enough, so I ended up with the Professional account. It was a good call as I hit 300 searches in a week!
That being said, Kagi is worth every cent, its search results are much better than many of the underdog search engines, and even out does Google for me on a regular basis. Kagi’s AI results are also really good and also cites its sources so you can fact check yourself. (I think Bing’s copilot does similar, but I wasn’t that impressed with it when I tried it a while ago)
I only hit the 300 search quota back in March, just on the last day of that month’s plan. I do like the service, but I’m uncertain on Vlad so I’ve established using other services.
