Kagi for Safari 4+

On some devices the extension redirects to Kagi some of the time. On some the extension redirects to Kagi even when I don’t want it to. So it’s a mix of unreliable and over aggressive.

I can’t work out how to troubleshoot this. I wish they spent less time on weird AI experiments and more time getting the fundamentals right. And I know they have their own competing browser but giving up all the integrations of Safari because they can’t make their extension work right feels exhausting.

Kagi is a great search engine, just try it and you'll see that it meets or beats Google in every search. It's so good at finding results that it has created a new problem of sometimes spoiling the plots to TV shows for me. Imagine how it'll work for that programming topic you're researching? Don't imagine, I'll tell you! I'm an iOS developer by trade and Swift changes constantly -- Kagi manages to show me properly relevant results instead of years-old posts that bump their publishing date to stay on top of SEO rankings. Kagi sometimes magically shows me sub-results by by language version, too! I have no idea how it works so well, it feels impossible.

That said, Kagi (the search engine) is great, but I want to focus on talking about the quality of Kagi (the company) instead.

I sent an email to Kagi with feedback around an issue. They engaged in a conversation with me about it in only a few hours and within days they had updated their App Store description to reflect limitations with Safari and provide more transparency to their users.

I had first-hand proof within minutes of being a Kagi customer as to their commitment to transparency, which is a core reason I wanted to use Kagi in the first place.

It can only get better from here!

This is not a review of the Kagi search engine, this is about the Kagi extension for Safari... Version 2.0 which came out Dec 27 or so, finally fixed my biggest concern with the Kagi extension - they swapped the framework they use so that now you can have Kagi installed and it doesn't need to have access to every website you visit, AND it still can allow the ability to use other search engines when you actually want to. Very much improved, and thank you Kagi team!