¬ just serendipity 🍀 (not just serendipity)

My Kagi trial is going to expire within 2 days.

Previously, I wrote:

The question to ask yourself is whether it’s worth paying $10 / month for their professional plan, or whether DuckDuckGo is enough for you. If you can have your company expense them, then it’s definitely a no-brainer.

My company approved my request to expense it, therefore I am going to buy their 1-year Professional plan.

Now, a few observations:

• Would I pay for it out of my own pocket? Probably no. It’s perfectly reasonable and enough for my purposes to use a blend of DuckDuckGo + ChatGPT Search. That said, Kagi provides extra value to me on top of that duo; I prefer using it.

• Once you grow accustomed with search results without ads it’s very, very hard to go back. Searching on Google suddenly feels like a thing of the past. It’s very similar to the experience of getting used to ad-blocking software in the web browser and then suddenly turning them off. The Web feels messy and bloated.

• I did 961 searches at the time of this post, with 18 assistant interactions. I barely use their AI features because I prefer the OpenAI ChatGPT experience. Nonetheless, their AI features are occasionally handy and I find them to be integrated in a non-intrusive way.

TL;DR: Go for Kagi iff you can expense it. This is not a sponsored post. :)