[HN Gopher] Kagi search and Orion browser enter public beta
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       Kagi search and Orion browser enter public beta
        
       Author : awooo
       Score  : 32 points
       Date   : 2022-06-01 17:01 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (blog.kagi.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (blog.kagi.com)
        
       | mrHedgehog wrote:
       | I've been using Kagi for a while now(maybe 2-3 months iirc), and
       | it's been a great experience. I've hopped between 4[0] search
       | engines in the past year, and I've finally found one that works
       | really well, is private, and does what I need it to do. My thanks
       | to the Kagi team for delivering a great experience, I've enabled
       | my premium account. 100% worth it for me.
       | 
       | [0]: Ecosia -> DDG -> Brave Search -> Kagi
        
       | freediver wrote:
       | Founder here, it was quite a journey very excited to be launching
       | beta today with payments. The idea of paying for web search was
       | unimaginable three years ago when we started this.
       | 
       | AMA!
        
       | u2077 wrote:
       | Been using on iOS for a few months now. I enjoy using Orion
       | because it actually gives the user options and imo fixes the
       | issues I had with the Safari redesign. Love that it's fast and
       | intuitive.
       | 
       | One thing I don't like is that there's no option to never save
       | history (like the DDG app)
       | 
       | Any chance that could be added soon?
        
         | freediver wrote:
         | Sure, just suggest on https://orionfeedback.org
        
       | nathants wrote:
       | can confirm kagi is very good.
        
       | up6w6 wrote:
       | They did a blog with an overview of the features today:
       | https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-features
        
       | awooo wrote:
       | Been using Kagi Search as my daily driver for a few months now
       | and am really happy with the experience. Also the founder is very
       | active within the community, responds to every message,
       | implements a lot of suggestions. Happy to pay and hope that the
       | project works out.
        
       | sph wrote:
       | I've been evaluating Kagi for a couple weeks, I'm liking it, but
       | today I'm completely sold. I've been doing a niche, technical
       | search this morning: trying to figure out if Emacs and TRAMP can
       | be made to work with flatpak-spawn.
       | 
       | Google returned a ton of unrelated posts and I had to tell it to
       | stop ignoring my search terms. Kagi returned the only relevant
       | page: a comment on a Github issue that Google wasn't able to
       | find, and no other fluff, because that particular combination of
       | words doesn't exist anywhere else on the Internet.
       | 
       | In other words, Google lies and paraphrases your search to return
       | as much results as possible, usually not very relevant, while
       | Kagi respects my search terms and can surface very niche pages.
       | 2022 Google makes the Internet feel very small.
       | 
       | I've test driven Brave Search for months as well, and this is my
       | personal ranking, from best to worst: Kagi > Brave Search =
       | Google Search > DDG.
        
       | ezekg wrote:
       | That explains why things have been a bit ... slow ... today.
       | 
       | Good luck with the public beta! Love Kagi.
        
       | donkarma wrote:
       | Always good to see competition. I hope this pans out for Kagi as
       | a user
        
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