Killer feature. It would be awesome to have some plugin or userscript to auto-swap the e-begging scammy link for an Archive link instead.

I've been enjoying Kagi for the last couple years.

Even as LLMs slurp up most of the internet and replace search I think Kagi is still useful.

Reddit has recently blocked access to old reddit without an account and the ability to filter out stuff like that is useful.

Hmmm, so if you are looking for some news item, you'll only find AI-written clickbait articles covered in pop-up ads, rather than any news sites that employ journalists?

I love Kagi but will probably be selective or ignore this one. Sometimes, I like to know what's out there, and I don't have a problem with paying for good content.

Kagi, search engine that costs you to use has something against publishers who require a fee for their content. Interesting

Very useful feature to have. I've not dived into using Kagi just yet, but they may just win me over with this.

Would the biggest impact of this be for things like news sources? I guess the idea is that ads are preferrable, as ads and paywalls (subscriptions basically, right?) seem to be two of the primary existing ways that such places support themselves (or don't)?

This makes sense to me as a Kagi user. The chance that I'm going to subscribe to read an article I found via a search is zero.

It would be cool if you could subscribe to search filters or lists or customizations like you do in uBlock origin, especially community made. Or even sharing rankings or somehow having graphs of useful links. Good manual search is super important because in the age of LLMs it’s the only other option if you want to learn about a topic without relying on ai on the internet, and having good results makes it possible unlike most search engines.

That should have been an option in Google since the first paywall was put up.

I want the opposite. I want links to the best quality information - even if I have to hunt down a copy.

I would pay for Brave or Kagi for like $2-3 per month if one of them supported private payments(actually that's exactly what Brave costs).

Paying should get you more privacy not less.

I'm not paying for Kagi because it's expensive and also doesn't support private payments and Brave has better UI for me.

Brave blocks their own ads while not supporting private payments and it doesn't let you use the search premium in Vanadium, it seems, which makes me question whether my subscription would work cross device. Maybe it would but only in Brave browser.

>Support private, independent search

>See search results ad-free

>Get a cleaner view on all results pages

>Cancel any time

Brave should also add more perks like maybe a smarter AI overview or if they ever stop giving unlimited AI then you get some. At this point it seems like a donation.

Paywalls differ by the difficulty of circumventing them - for NYT/WaPo paywalls it's enough to delete cookies for domain, for WSJ/FT you have to use archive.is, and surely there are paywalls with no known workarounds too.

This is the kind of feature that would potentially make me switch, but I feel like at this point AI has disrupted web search for me in such a fundamental way that I rarely use a search engine nowadays.

I believe Kagi has been annotating paywalled results with a circled dollar sign for some time. This completely weeds such results out of every search. It would be nice to be able to toggle this (1) in the options drop-down menu on the results page (like Verbatim and Personalized modes), as well as (2) inline (with a "!nopaywall" bang or something).