Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

pelagicAustral

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.

tempest_

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.

SamBam

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?

pkilgore

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.

kkarpkkarp

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

shahedshah

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

no-name-here

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 seem to be two of the primary existing ways that such places support themselves (or don't)?

getfacl

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.

scotty79

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

cormorant

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

Cider9986

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.

r721

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.

sssilver

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.

treetalker

I believe Kagi has been annotating paywalled results with a circled dollar sign for some time. This new feature 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).

sarjann

I would like to be able to whitelist some paywall sites, e.g. I have an FT subscription and would like to have that bypass the block.

OroPla

While this is a nice feature, needing an account (nevermind paying) to then only get a meta search engine will prevent me from ever using it. I already spread my searches across at least four different engines (Bing, Ecosia, Startpage & Yandex), so no single provider has a complete profile of all my searches. I certainly won't be paying to hand over my data.

delis-thumbs-7e

I think this is amazing. Love Kagi. I’m happy to pay for a good search. Nobody speaks about their AI Assistant, but it is really good. They somehow harnessed it so that it mainly searches info first and sticks to the verifiable data. I prefer it to Claude or any other, because it actually answers the question I need without fluff or “Great question! Here’s some plausible nonsense you can trip over instead of doing actual research!”.

DeepLogin

I use Brave Search+ DuckDuckGo+ Google Image search and that seems to sastify my search requirements while keeping my payment info private. I don't think I will ever think of subscribing to Kagi metasearch engine, especially since their paywalled search offerings seem to be inferior to other options.

oriettaxx

omg, great really!!! When will this be available into HN, too ?

docheinestages

Kudos to Kagi!