[HN Gopher] Kagi Snaps
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Kagi Snaps
Author : aleksi
Score : 70 points
Date : 2024-10-11 20:58 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (help.kagi.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (help.kagi.com)
| apearson wrote:
| Bangs but better
| oatsandsugar wrote:
| I expect this in search engines. I have to test this for
| searching websites with difficult to use search like Reddit or
| the Nike website.
| juujian wrote:
| Now add a snap for local search in my machine and it's all I have
| ever wanted :)
| rank0 wrote:
| Sick idea. We'll need an OpenSearch or equivalent cluster
| indexing your local fs right? Can we do this just in browser
| (and would we even want to)?
| noident wrote:
| Do snaps offer any advantages over site:whatever.com?
| louthy wrote:
| Less typing
| frereubu wrote:
| Marginally quicker to type:
|
| @r vs site:reddit.com
|
| After a few tries, I also find the first more intuitive.
| zorked wrote:
| It appears to be a UI thing, but it's an excellent UI thing: it
| reuses familiar bangs and has an autocomplete/discovery mode
| for new bang codes.
| drekipus wrote:
| This looks cool but is too similar to "site: reddit.com" for me.
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| What would be super awesome, imo, would be if I could assign
| "some sites" as a short code, then snaps that.
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| So for instance, I might put html, phoenix, CSS, and tailwind
| spec/references all as one grouping, and then I can search
| "select drop-down @phoenix" - and search for that across all
| references (so I can see the html spec alongside the tailwind and
| phoenix docs)
| throwup238 wrote:
| You can create a custom lens that includes those sites and
| point a custom bang at it.
|
| For example I have a custom QT lens that only includes results
| from [*.qt.io, *.stackoverflow.com, *.github.com...] and a !qt
| bang pointing to it at https://kagi.com/search?q=%s&l=8
|
| (you'll have to change the l= id to point at your lens)
| freediver wrote:
| You can already do that with Kagi lenses (if I understand you
| correctly)
| create-username wrote:
| Bangs are nice on the browser but Alfred is faster and more
| intuitive. I'm combining them
|
| I wish there were Alfred alternatives for other operating systems
| chrisweekly wrote:
| Great feature! Kagi is awesome.
|
| See also the settings for personalized results - block useless
| domains from even appearing.
|
| https://help.kagi.com/kagi/settings/personalized-results.htm...
| denismi wrote:
| They've seemed very focused on their AI assistant recently, so
| I'm happy to see a useful new search feature.
|
| Happy to see that custom bangs work (eg a discourse forum I
| visit), but eventually I'd like to specify how far along the path
| to "snap".
|
| I'd like my @javadoc to hit
| `site:docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/23/docs/api/` instead of the
| current `site:docs.oracle.com`.
| freediver wrote:
| Check the latest release notes for all search improvements that
| went out in this release:
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| https://kagi.com/changelog#4813
| delduca wrote:
| I have stopped to pay Kagi because their obsession to employ AI
| everywhere.
| delduca wrote:
| I am leaving Google because the AI crap.
| nobodywasishere wrote:
| We do currently have a field to override the domain used for
| snaps (the `ad` field in the bangs repository[1]) which doesn't
| have much validation and is useful for situations like this.
| It's possible we'll expose this for custom bangs in the future,
| but for now I can add that as a bang to the main repository, as
| it seems like it would be generally useful.
|
| [1]: https://github.com/kagisearch/bangs?tab=readme-ov-
| file#bang-...
| ldoughty wrote:
| This is why we need competition, and to stop the big guys from
| buying the small guys. This is trying to innovate for the
| customer, making search better for my areas of interest and
| desires. One of the few subscriptions that make me very happy.
|
| Thank you Kagi folk that hang out here.
| lofaszvanitt wrote:
| Kagi is becoming the new google. Same thing, offered in a new
| package. If there are 100 good results for a query, why always
| show the same results in the same order?
| JacobHenner wrote:
| See also: DuckDuckGo's Bangs - https://duckduckgo.com/bangs
| changing1999 wrote:
| Kagi has bangs. This is different. It's a shortcut for "site:
| somesite.com", while a bang just redirects to the somesite.com
| search results page.
| prophesi wrote:
| Another interesting thing to note in the recent release[0] is
| that they now have an Android app in the Play Store, and it will
| pave the way to include Kagi in the default search engine list
| for Android and Chrome.
|
| > Additionally, a recent EU ruling presents a significant
| opportunity for Kagi. Google is now required to include any
| search engine that meets specific criteria, such as having an app
| with over 5,000 installs, in the default list for Android and
| Chrome.
|
| [0] https://kagi.com/changelog#4813
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