How Kagi Can Get Even Better

A few months ago, I did something I thought I’d never do:

I paid for a general purpose search engine – Kagi.

I did this because Google simply no longer meets my needs:

1. Google results for my particular type of search have dramatically downgraded.
2. Google’s focus on seemingly ALWAYS giving me a video for a search query means I find myself watching videos for things that really can be solved by simple text. This is both a bandwidth and a time mistake.
3. By and large, Google’s interests have traditionally been aligned with their users – I no longer feel that this is true.

Kagi has proved to be a spectacular tool and I am very, very glad that I am a paid user.

And Now a Story from the Days of Yore

Like may old farts, I often have stories to tell and today is no different. Once upon a time, I founded a search engine for blogs called Feedster. Over that 3 year period, Feedster provided me with spectacularly good search results. And, while, we had a good search engine driving us, well, it wasn’t Google good. And yet, we still had

• api for data providers to tell kagi what is new
• index information at its natural lexical size
• Teh feedster lesson
• Crawling is a losing game
• Be able to index information in provate spheres
• Don’t