Oh wow, these are legitimately all good improvements. Some are things I'd use, some are, I'm sure, going to appreciated by others, but what's pointedly not anywhere on this list (except cheekily in a few screenshots) is any sort of AI-powered nonsense. I know they mentioned a while back that they were working on some tooling of that sort, but boy am I happy that (in this release at least), they focused on features that genuinely improve and extend the search experience.
It's possible a form of AI (depending on your definition of the term) is powering some of these features, but it's used as an implementation detail, not a marketing term, which I appreciate.
AI is hot right now. It’s literally a buzzword. When projects add AI to something that doesn’t need it that’s nonsense. So the claim is not that all AI is nonsense. The claim is that Kagi is refreshing for not using AI nonsensically.
It's also a buzzword with no commonly-accepted definition. (If something is commonly accepted, it's that the term escapes common definition.)
This motivates a race-to-the-bottom mixed with a sort of Gresham's law. The worst actors go the furthest. And then they drive the good actors away from the term. "AI-powered X" is quickly approaching red flag territory for me, though I doubt that will be the case for the general population for some time.
Happy to keep paying for this.