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I'm excited for this. I've found Kagi to be very useful having widgets like this, in addition to the search results being good. I still have DDG as my search engine for ephemeral searches[1] on my phone and I'm getting sick of it. I don't know if I'd say the result quality has been getting worse, it's just not good and hasn't been for years.

Kagi on the other hand feels like an ideal subscription service. It feels like what Google search wanted to become.

[1] To force me not to leave open tabs I don't really care about, my default browser is FireFox Focus, which is strictly "incognito" mode, which means I'd have to manually log in to Kagi every time I did a search.




You can use the session link [0] in incognito so you don't have to login each time.

[0] https://kagi.com/settings?p=user_details


On mobile incognito you'd need to access that session link and go from there. You cannot just use the address/search bar, as mobile browsers like Chrome do not include a config to put the link.


Mobile Firefox allows it.


you have to love that the GP says "browsers like Chrome don't allow" and the two responses under it are "Safari does" and "mobile Firefox does" -- literally the only other browsers in the mobile ecosystem

maybe this limitation isn't "browsers like Chrome". Maybe it's JUST CHROME with the limitation, because Chrome sucks, and has for awhile now.

It's almost like the developer of Chrome doesn't want you to use a different search engine. Funny, that


It's true on Brave, too. When I said "like Chrome" that's what I meant.


On iOS Safari it works with the Kagi extension.


Works even without it and also in incognito tabs. Use your session URL. The config documentation needs some work, it's very unstructured and difficult to follow to be honest.

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/getting-started/setting-default.h...


It is also open source (just click edit). We welcome improvements.


Woah, what an awesome feature!


You can get something somewhat similar to Firefox Focus in regular Firefox for Android by enabling the option to open in Private tabs by default and turning on tab auto-closing. That's what I did for a while when there were indications that Firefox Focus was about to be abandoned (which never actually happened).

Even better though, now that Add Ons are opened up on Firefox for Android you can install Cookie AutoDelete. Then you just use regular tabs and can keep your Kagi cookies (and any other sites you regularly log into) but have it nuke every other site.

There is also a Kagi Add On. It didn't do pretty much anything when I first installed it last year but it might work these days.

Oh, and finally, there is the Kagi Session Link you can use that embeds a token in the URL so that you can more easily use it for something like a search provider in Incognito/Private tabs.


Imo ddg's mission is incompatible with today's web. The mission is simply to serve you regular Google/bing search, but without tracking and they do that well, but it is missing the absolute trash fire that those results are currently (yes, they have moved somewhat from that but clearly they are still heavily reliant on Google ranking). Kagi on the other hand, I spend 5$ a month on search that doesn't track me AND gives me great results. The open-source stuff (think of me when a bang now gives you https directly :D) is just the cherry on top.


> The open-source stuff (think of me when a bang now gives you https directly :D) is just the cherry on top.

Oh that was you, thank you!


> but it is missing the absolute trash fire that those results are currently

I don't understand your answer. Isn't that a good thing? Why are you missing trash on DDG?


What I meant is that DDG focuses on privacy while promising the same results as Google. This used to be desirable, but now DDG ['s leadership] is seemingly unaware that Google's results are no longer good


IIUC, "it is missing" was used in the sense "it is missing the forest for the trees" -- as in, the Big Picture is that search results are turning to garbage steadily, but if you shrink your perspective, hey at least you're not being tracked ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


> [1] To force me not to leave open tabs I don't really care about, my default browser is FireFox Focus, which is strictly "incognito" mode, which means I'd have to manually log in to Kagi every time I did a search.

I strongly recommend the Tab Wrangler extension. I set it to close any tabs that have not been visited in the last 6 hours. Of all the methods I've tried to deal with too many tabs, this has been the most effective.


On my phone, my solution has been working well for a few years.

FF Focus is my go-to browser, so most things I look up or do on the web vanish.

I have a second browser (Vanadium) with ~20 tabs open in different groups which I keep open perpetually. Things like my bank's site, my healthcare portal, other things I want to be able to stay logged into. Then there's one group for different articles I'm reading; these I close once I've exhausted the conversation and opened all the links I'm interested in.

(My desktop computer is a different matter entirely.)




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