I really loved Kagi and was a paid customer for close to two years. But sadly this year I wont be renewing my plan.
Kagi made search feel just “right” it was simple, got the job done and had some really simple but cool search features.
But over time they started doing way too much, and I kept seeing more and more features that I really didn't want. It felt like I was paying for all this while I just wanted to type something on to a text box and click search and see a bunch of results organized according to my filters.
I wish they would just dump all the other nonsense projects like ai and just focus on search only. Or give me an option to pay for search only without any limits.
I do agree actually but I’m sticking with them. Their mission of ending slop but also pushing ai tools seem at odds. On one hand they’re marketing to the anti ai crowd while also joining the ai hype? It’s weird.
As I'm not familiar with how Kagi is "pushing ai tools" this is mostly a comment on the framing of your question.
Are you really saying that a company specializing in search - natural language oriented at its core - should not make use of the biggest technological revolution for processing natural language?
No, I meant their push of their assistant, summarizer, and news product (which is ai generated summaries).