Kagi search engine

April 2nd, 2024 #

Improvements and bug fixes

• Allow previous 2FA code to work along with current 30sec one #3540 @frin
• Custom bangs accessible from Search Settings tab #3616 @mhitza
• Asking !chat to modify a <script>...</script> tag causes the script tag in the response to be not escaped/not visible #3694 @heavyg
• We've resolved capacity issues with our recent models upgrade
• Bottom of image search results is cluttered with low quality Second Life screenshots #3632 @yellow
• Show summary of question in fastgpt in tab title #3203 @fictorial
• Image Description Completely Wrong #3600 @CrunchyFritos
• Assistant Expert "<SEARCH REQUIRED" and then switches to spanish #3661 @tschoesi
• Mistral "Sorry, a problem occurred while processing your request. Please try again later." #3684 @abb128
• Custom assistant ignoring custom instructions #3685 @Wanja
• Latext support in quick answer #3455 @Grooty
• AI Model selection should be sticky #3503 @JamesT
• Assistant code overflows #3428 @cardinal086

Features

• We continue enhancing our search experience with bangs. Check the shield menu to see if a website has a corresponding bang. #3410 @frereit
  

• We've upgraded the FastGPT, and Research Assistant (Fast+Expert) with the latest models to enhance performance:

  • FastGPT -> Claude 3 Haiku
  • Research Assistant, Fast -> Claude 3 Haiku
  • Research Assistant, Expert -> Claude 3 Sonnet

• These are also available in Chat mode which allows full access to a range of models like Claude 3 Opus, GPT-4 and Mistral Large [Please note, Kagi Assistant is currently in closed beta and is exclusively accessible to subscribers of the Ultimate plan]
  

• We now allow the community to see and translate the trigger phrases for widgets that utilize them, such as the weather and calculator widgets. Learn more about how to contribute translations in our help page. #2506 @cempack

Improvements and bug fixes

• Show colour picker when searching for "colour picker" or "color picker" #3370 @httpjames
• Clock Widget (ie, checking time in another time zone) initially shows PM instead of AM #3533 @mackid1993
• Ultimate-exclusive bangs not working on starter plan #3551 @emarforio
• Timer doesn't count time correctly #3436 @__rej__
• The enter key ignores the character selection state when using Chinese IME #3606 @morningdip
• Unable to upload items between 8mb and 16mb #3593 @cakeboss
• Search results have no title Firefox Android #3586 @ray
• Discussion cards #3519 @Dumb
• News Snippet cuts off menu #3542 @xrendan
• Show that a bang is available in the info field of a result #3410 @frereit
• Search ignoring pre-set date filter #3417 @travior
• Check Listen Notes API integration #3163 @matteoscopel
• Quick answer does not display footnotes correctly #3637 @bebowilson
• Add bang country for Indonesia #3515 @rourguic
• Make stats subpages shareable #3452 @Value7609
• Updating a lens' bang causes the server to crash with 502 Server Error #3601 @httpjames
• Assistant is still capping characters to 7k #3547 @httpjames
• AI Assistant regenerates answer on tab restore/reopen when called from bang #3569 @emarforio
• Quick answer button slightly misaligned on mobile #3429 @sefidel
• Stop overriding the browser’s scroll bars with custom CSS #3420 @David
• Using the bang !fast on Firefox iOS just gives me an emtpy window #3597 @lou
• Reddit and Hackernews backlinks only (?) work on us-central #3277 @nilsherzig
• Bangs in Image / Video / News / Podcast / Maps Search do not redirect. #2929 @Syx
• Lenses are not activated for research #3317 @tkataja
• Quick answer breaks when the query contains html tags #3614 @ys256
• Research Expert Mode "forgets" Citations #3612 @tschoesi
• Research Assistant cannot summarize GitHub issues URLs correctly (but it can as a PDF) #3581 @yokoffing
• Missing citations in fastgpt / quickanswer again #3625 @truethomas
• Quick answer words end with numbers (without links to sources) #3628 @bert
• Blocked sites showing up in "Quick Peek" results #3477 @n6h6
• "Sorry, a problem occurred while processing your request." when using the bang "!expert" #3306 @lou

Announcements

Starting from March 26th, we will begin including localized sales tax for all new customers who subscribe on or after this date.

Starting from April 9th, all existing customers who qualify for sales tax/VAT will see localized sales tax/VAT added to their monthly invoice in USD, on top of their current subscription fee. This adjustment will appear on your next invoice on or after April 9th, with no immediate extra charge.

If you are paying with an alternative method via Paypal, OpenNode, or any other non-Stripe provider: You will be prompted to pick a sales tax region the next time you go to purchase credit.

If you have any questions about this change, please feel free to contact our team through Discord or at support@kagi.com. We will be building an F.A.Q. page to answer any questions about the migration process.

To clarify, it means an end-price increase for affected members (sales tax/VAT will be automatically added on top of Kagi price, if applicable in your country/state) and this is mandated by Kagi becoming large enough to have legal sales tax/VAT obligation. In addition, Kagi will have to retroactively pay for all sales tax/VAT that we did not collect in the last almost two years. We have chosen to absorb this on behalf of our customers.

Improvements and bug fixes

• We made some changes to Kagi-specific bangs: you can access FastGPT through !fgpt and Discuss doc with !discussdoc
• LaTeX is not displaying properly #3514 @rourguic
• Claude 3 Opus injects random mathematical formulae #3564 @tiltowait
• Expert research assistant fails to process request #3566 @frin
• Research assistant messes up character spacing unpredictably #3184 @httpjames
• Duplicate bang search suggestion #3379 @Value7609
• Kagi Quick Answer Mismatch Between Document Number and Source Number #3549 @benoit
• UI Bug: Chat Assistant models card has a clipboard icon #3485 @Chris
• Maps keeps trying to get a location on every keystroke #3405 @tinkling6961
• POST /login returns HTTP 500 Internal Server Error #3526 @pdm
• Non-ASCII Wikipedia URL incorrectly encoded #3459 @ThreePointsShort
• Kagi Assistant - Text Parsing Issue #3390 @martafolf

Has anyone had luck using a search widget on their home screen that connects to kagi? A home screen search bar is the fastest way, and one of the most frequent ways the to connect, but i haven't found any android search widget that works.

Features

• We've upgraded the Quick Answer keyboard shortcut. Pressing q triggers Quick Answer after search results are shown, but also allows you to control the level of detail displayed, letting you expand or condense the information to suit your needs #3493 @yellow
• Orion browser lifetime purchase w/ credits on balance is now possible
• Added Thai language option #3439 @bocchi

We currently have almost 20 languages localized. Our translation effort is crowd-sourced, and If you would like to contribute translations to Kagi, click here.

Assistant

• We increased the input character limits for Assistant to 16k characters #3421 @mackid1993
• We have doubled the file upload limit for Assistant to 16 MB #2705 @Grooty

Maps

• Added support for multiple routing options in navigation (user can choose between up to 3 different routing options when navigating to a location)
  
• Improved user experience and interface (UX/UI) behaviour when searches fail due to issues like lost Wi-Fi connection
• Enhanced UX/UI behaviour for searches that hang or take too long to complete
• Fixed the issue of missing quick-find results on the mobile dropdown menu
• Refresh the style and design of navigation route map lines and markers for driving and walking directions to improve their visibility and clarity

Improvements and Bug Fixes

• Eager prompting of time widget #3207 @Jake-Moss
• Emails Are Case Sensitive #3322 @Cain
• Dark background in the preview of some images makes it hard to see them #161 @gesumin
• Missing superscript or subscript argument #3211 @vogel
• Aw, Snap! STATUS_STACK_OVERFLOW Chrome crash when using code ai chat #3454 @tboby
• Link to Orion on stats #3449 @dix
• Provide context information like length and type for summarized URLs #2855 @mhersh
• Multi-line in chat causes the input box to overflow #3466 @sapourli
• ‘Custom instruction’ screen incorrectly rendering ‘blobs’ #3502 @JamesT
• Accessing /stats/ instead of /stats shows empty page. #3450 @Value7609
• Search form and assistant messages submitted prematurely using some IMEs #3406 @johnm
• Claude 3 Opus response issue #3433 @Dumb
• Claude 3 Opus is very talky #3435 @Value7609
• Assistant expert mode queries respond with (Invalid Input) #3442 @kagi-strut927
• Code assistant: missing code fence #3437 @tiltowait

Announcements

We are launching instant Summary Boxes, together with announcing partnership with Wolfram|Alpha and welcoming Stephen Wolfram to Kagi's board of advisors.

Read everything in our blog post.

note: You may need to enable Summary Boxes in Settings -> Search.

Features

• "Small YouTube" (part of Kagi Small Web) feed has been enhanced with more content, check it out
  (+ RSS feed is available)

• We've added Orion+ member count to our stats page.

• You can now summarise videos directly from the results page via three dots menu. You can even ask questions about it (as with any other result appearing in Kagi search). #3269 @Browsing6853

• We've added keyboard shortcut for activating Quick Answer. Just press q on your keyboard after the results are loaded to get a quick summary of results. #3161 @Browsing6853

• We added access to Mistral Large and Claude 3 Opus to Assistant (please note, the Assistant remains in beta and limited to Ultimate subscribers)
  

Improvements & Bug fixes

• Simplified the onboarding process for Duo & Family accounts via universal invitation links
• Apple Sign In, then Set Password, Breaks Apple Sign In #3330 @hanji
• Handling for Desktop/Mobile Website Versions in Search Results #1727 @Wisely
• Wrong results from currency converter #3366 @ioctl
• Search option bar can be vertically scrolled after reloading if the bar contains Quick Answer button #3328 @sefidel
• When you navigate back, the search query in the More Results button doesn't match the results. #3209 @xorgy
• Cannot click enter in search box android #3315 @KaraZajac
• Wolfram Alpha math result does not meet expectation #3189 @brotis
• Assistant doesn't remember last selected model in some situations #3223 @sefidel
• Further improvements to fix $_latex_inline in quick answer #3225 @bert
• The response None is returned by FastGPT #3343 @AndreL

Feb 27, 2024 - Bangs upgrades, user control enhancements, and colour code widget #

Features

• We've made further progress in enhancing Bangs in the UI. And following the release of our open-source bags repository, the community has contributed by adding and fixing dozens of bangs already! Additionally, we upgraded all bangs to use HTTPS where possible.

• To further enhance user control, we now indicate when there are blocked results for your search queries #2698 @Fernandez)

• We've introduced a new colour code search widget. It displays the selected colour, allows to pick an alternative, and to convert between HSL and RGB formats #118 @yokoffing)

Kagi for Safari 2.2.2

• If you were having issues with Kagi for Safari, make sure you are running the latest version and that 'Engine to redirect' option in extension settings is set to the one used by Safari.
• [Changed] Adopted monochrome icon for toolbar/menu to match Safari icon styles

Improvements and bug fixes

• Kagi Quick Answer now remembers 'Show more" option #3241 @Dustin
• We've introduced a new progress animation for the Assistant's responses (please note, the Assistant remains in beta and limited to Ultimate subscribers)
• Include non-US universities in Academic lens #3303 @rainfallwaterfallweb
• Automatic Kagi Status Page Updates #2914 @happinessattack
• Quotes cannot be used with assistant? #3276 @cardinal086
• Quick answer freezes page #3237 @repelz
• LLM Model Help Chart - Add Cost and Context Window #3049 @CrunchyFritos
• Error summarizing Von Neumann PDF #2978 @CrunchyFritos
• Universal Summarizer on iOS should not scroll horizontally #3251 @equalidea
• Site: search shows fewer results with "personalization" turned off #3040 @Value7609
• Broken search dropdowns #3278 @val
• PDFs appear in image search #3289 @matteoscopel
• Quick Peek breaks with "[ CDATA" in question #3308 @paszek
• Taiwan(tw) bang is missing in region search #3287 @fc
• Site: search shows fewer results with "personalization" turned off #3040 @Value7609
• Jisho bang encodes spaces incorrectly #3245 @adamaveray
• Changelog formatting broken for lists #3280 @VIEWVIEWVIEW

Announcements

• Kagi Bangs repository is now open source (thanks @Browsing6853 for suggesting this in #481). You can now refine the accuracy of existing bangs or introduce new ones for everyone to enjoy on Kagi Search. Your contributions will enhance the search experience for users worldwide.

• Fresh from Kagi Labs: We're shipping an alpha version of Kagi Sidekick, a search and "chat with content" solution for websites.

  Kagi Sidekick will offer instant site search results, and on-demand AI generated summaries, by tapping directly into the website's content. As a bonus, the website content will automatically (after opt-in) surface as a part of Kagi search index.

  You can see Sidekick live in action in Kagi's documentation.

  

  We'd love to hear your feedback, and how would you use it on your website. We will plan the launch based on incoming demand.

  Visit the Sidekick project landing page to learn more and register your interest for a beta invite. If you'd like to participate in building projects like this, Kagi Labs is hiring part-time contributors.

Improvements & Bug fixes

• Faster and enhanced autocomplete in Kagi Maps
• We added the option to disable Quick Answers through your Search Settings #3185 @TyrelSouza
• You can now turn off Kagi's changelog notifications in Account Settings #2722 @ChristenGottschlich
• Found a query that returns no results #3147 @rossdanderson
• Completely unrelated search result #3248 @raphael
• Weird/unrelated result from search query #3173 @arcaneasada
• Images fail to load from various sources with a 404 in Assistant #3154 @rtwk
• "Summarize in Document Language" detecting the wrong language #3202 @lou
• AI Research Assistant does not always provide sources #3138 @cmooon
• Discuss Url has a display bug #3081 @unruffled5088
• UX: Cannot untoggle image search filters. #3168 @Chris
• Summarize page is broken for every quora result #3149 @Browsing6853
• Add hyperlink at wolfram alpha instant answers to wolfram alpha website #3195 @Browsing6853
• Time converter is buggy #3180 @Oni-giri
• Quick Peek on iOS missing foldable arrow graphics #3158 @equalidea
• Inline images should not scroll vertically on iOS #3159 @equalidea
• Add a "Remove results from this site" in dropdown to temporarily remove said site from showing up in results #3019 @FurbyOnSteroids
• Better expose bangs #2940 @leftium
• Lenses with glob exclude doesn't work #3157 @Orhideous
• Bangs regarding fedora package search are broken #3234 @strom
• Tldr bang redirects to offline page #3230 @stzsch
• Image search is surfacing non-free licensed images, despite license filters #2964 @KagiForMe
• Jarring truncated quick answer text #3210 @Jake-Moss
• Add table borders to assistant outputs #3200 @platyhsu
• Can't select text in kagi summarizer textbox #3175 @Value7609
• Shouldn’t Options - Options really be “Personalized results” #3033 @stoyle
• When navigating images they are in bad resolution for a second or so until they become sharp #3242 @eltaco
• Open search bar icon doesn't pop up on Mobile #3258 @sefidel
• Kagi persists old query when switching from web to image results #3226 @iivvoo
• $_latex_inline in quick answer #3225 @bert

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12140329

I've been using this search engine and I have to say I'm absolutely in love with it.

Search results are great, Google level even. Can't tell you how happy I am after trying multiple privacy oriented engines and always feeling underwhelmed with them.

Have you tried it? What are your thoughts on it?

They're obviously related to Kagi and I've been posting the last few but I'm not 100% sure they belong here because every Kagi user already gets that little bell in the top right when a new one is out.

OTOH, some of the changes are worthy of discussion.

What do you think?

Due to the lack of innovation, there wasn't really a community where discussion and news about alternative search engines would fit, so I created one.

I was introduced to Kagi by an IRL friend of mine and was initially veeery sceptical of a paid search engine. You can probably relate. Fast forward a few months, I gave it a trial and was very pleasantly surprised. So much so that I'm now a subscriber and use it on all my devices.

What's your experience like?