Using Kagi Search with Low Vision

damnesian

I know it's a completely different thing- but the neurodiverse face similar struggles of having to wade through reams of completely superfluous content to get to anything usuable. Having done plenty of text to speech testing of my own website, I've never thought to turn it onto a Google search results page. It's abysmal. Of course Google is an accessibility nightmare.

jacobmarble

One more reason to love Kagi Search.

tonypapousek

The custom css is tight, love using inky blacks on my oled devices with just a single style sheet.

equasar

the thing I really miss when I use magic, is recommended places from Google maps, where to watch certain movie/series, a lot of things like that, where you can infer recommendations based on your location. Kagi might be good to filter everything scored "bad", but makes you work more.

Marsymars

I don't have low vision (yet), but do a fair amount of my reading sitting ~3m from a 65" screen, and I gotta say, the UI of this blog is lovely for that.

payphonefiend

Observation on the author's site: it's cool you can tell their site is designed for them by them, or other people with low vision. big font, high contrast, etc...

tamimio

Kagi is one of the few services that I will never use, it’s a privacy nightmare. Imagine all your search history are tied to one account, an account that id you with your payment information, and is hosted in the US? Google is better at this point, at least you can use it without an account.

ajyoon

Kagi is the one and only product I will ever stan

saint11

I've been using Kagi for a while now and I'm never going back to Google. Everything is just so much better when you are not the product.

hankbond

I love when people make personal websites (seemingly) purely for themselves. The design of this website really reflects the perspective of the author in a way that was immediately apparent. I've never seen a website with a menu that large.

poetril

Kagi has been one of my all time favorite products. It has enriched my search experience drastically. One of my favorite features I don't see talked about enough is the keybindings. Using vim keys for navigating search results is such a fantastic user experience, and much like normal vim I'm not sure I could go back to navigating search any other way. I also really appreciate their AI quick-search feature is explicitly opt in and trigger by adding a "?" to the end of search. Their selection of widgets is also quite nice and I find my self reaching for them quite a bit.

hod6654

I love Kagi, but it is soooo slow compared to Google. Really annoying...

jesterswilde

I really appreciate clearly custom websites. My eyes are also quite bad (legally blind.) Nearly ironically, because the site is already created for low vision, it had issues with the things that I do. Dark Reader froze up (uncommon) and the font was, for the first time, too large. I am glad to see someone else enjoying Kagi.

dmfdmf

So far, so good. I just let Kagi renew after my first year. The nicest thing is getting relevant search links on the first page or two and not pages of SEO links or ads masked as links that are irrelevant to my search. I haven't even used the advanced features yet but just using it in base mode is a huge time (and frustration) saver for me.

bandrami

Kagi was the best service provider change I've made in years and if anybody cares for an anonymous HN endorsement, they have mine.