I believe Kagi uses most major search indexes as well as its own.

Additionally, I don’t think it’s fair to say it’s more interested in LLMs than focusing on search. I think it’s fair to say they’re interested in ensuring they’re offering a better, non ad-based search replacement.

Disclaimer: Not affiliated with Kagi in any way, just a long time happy user.

Matt Colville and MCDM are working on Draw Steel and didn’t Critical Role release a few?

In the US you could just use “zipcode-us”. It’s not ideal though. Otherwise just “city-stateabbr-us” - e.g. “SiouxFalls-SD-US”

Yep, dropbox was a great company until it wasn't.

I made their first "unofficial" android client and they "allowed" it for a year or so up until they wanted to sue the pants off me. (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27036593)

suing sounds very extreme, but as someone who has worked on a similar service, unofficial clients are actually pretty annoying to deal with. They often end up using ancient APIs, dodgy secrets handling, we don't know what trackers they use, they do not follow our policies for usage that our official clients do. But they create a secondary community and some actually work surprisingly well for what they try to do.

Prime is nothing compared to experian. Logging in forces you through a sign up flow for their paid subscription service. Doing nearly anything in the site does.

I’m excited for this - even if right now all I get is “There was an error processing your request.”

The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step. Hopefully this eventually relegates the private tax prep industry to history.

I also live in this fear and have specifically communicated it to Vlad in an email before. He gave the same response as one of your other responders - they have no intention of selling.

Of course, that's the only answer any successful founder would give you...so I still live in fear :(

Kagi founder here. I wake up every morning loving my job, our member community, our mission and the change we make in the world. We are basicallly sustainable at this point and I am in awe of the opportunities in front of us as a user-centric company, bringing a friendly version of the internet to homes worldwide. Things are looking good, we have no plans to change any of that.

Thank you for all of your work! I've been with Kagi since early in the beta and it's just been getting better and better!

Just this morning I realized that when I look up a classic Disney movie Kagi turns up the classic and not the 2010s remake, where Google invariably turns up the newer one. Little user-centric things like that are why I love Kagi so much!

What? My !bangs work as a prefix to my query. I didn't even know you could append them and have that work.

it seems the parent user either wants to put the bang in the middle of the query or does not want to put a space in.

!yt cat videos (works)

cat videos !yt (works)

cat !yt videos (not working)

cat videos!yt (not working)

I always prefix but I did that on ddg too, because chromium's tab search thingy has trained me to do it.

From a programmatic and practical point of view, I don't understand why would someone want to put a bang in the middle of a request or within a word.

Basically you have your request and you add a criteria on it, not in it.

It's like ordering at a restaurant : you wouldn't say "I'll have a burger to take away, some fries and a coke". You either specify how you'll have your order before or after the actual order. And you don't create a new word like "a cokedinein".

Furthermore, I want Kagi to be able to reply to the request "how do the !g bang works?"; if I want something else to reply, I'll add the relevant bang around my request.

Or I'm missing something?

From what I understand, the medicine available is fairly successful at staving off further disease progression but the normal late stage diagnosis often means it’s far too late. This might make outcomes significantly better if it works as well as reported.

That is true for some diseases but not all. I don't think we know how to prevent dementia. But identifying biomarkers is useful, at the very least for selecting people for enrollment in future trials.

You’re calling a scientific article unscientific? I think there’s a difference in not liking the direction or application of science and whether something is science or not.

Edit: Hm, the article is more of a summary/fluff piece. But I still think your argument is more appropriately disagreeing with the direction of science than it is a lack of the application of science.

What makes something scientific are falsifiable statements supported by careful observation and tests in controlled conditions. Not titles. Not affiliation with institutions. Recognition by the press or government is irrelevant to the truth value of research.

I think the whole scientific edifice is or is about to become a bad caricature of the medieval Catholic Church, and is just as in need of a Martin Luther to remind everyone that integrity and a return to principals is long overdue.

This is a somewhat ironic analogy, as Martin Luther was a deranged anti-Semite who called for the mass dispossession and murder of Jews. So, as about as irrational as the church he criticized. Protestant factions subsequently won a Europe-wide war, so he’s not remembered this way in the popular consciousnesses, but this is exactly the kind of person I would expect to decry the “scientific edifice.”

That your only criteria for judging a historical figure is whether or not he's an unconditional supporter of your favorite ethnic group doesn't come off as very objective.