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Kagi Search Changelog Dec 5, 2024 - Kagi for Teams, end-of-year community event

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Better search results with no ads. Welcome to Kagi (pronounced kah-gee), a paid search engine that gives power back to the user.

Kagi for Teams

We're excited to announce Kagi for Teams, bringing our unmatched search quality and AI tools to organizations worldwide. Whether you're leading a research team, running a startup, or managing enterprise knowledge workers, you can now equip your entire organization with ad-free search and AI capabilities that respect both your time and privacy.

Visit kagi.com/teams to get started.

End of year community event on December 20th

As we conclude a remarkable year, we invite you to join our End-of-Year Community Event 2024 on December 20th at 09:00 PST. This 90-minute session will feature a "Year in Review" presentation followed by a Q&A session with our community.

  • The event will be hosted as a Zoom webinar. You can register in advance for a reminder or join the webinar on the day of the event

  • Please submit and upvote questions in advance for the Q&A portion of the event

We look forward to sharing this special event with you. See you on December 20th!

Kagi Search

We've introduced a debug tool for everyone helping localize Kagi into as many languages possible and contributing Kagi translations. This toggle is located at the bottom of your Settings > General page and displays string IDs across the UI, providing better context for translations.

We grant official contributor status to our translators, providing access to early products and features. Thank you to all who have contributed.

Improvements and Bug Fixes

Assistant

  • 'searching with kagi' in Assistant #5552 @Thibaultmol
  • Kagi Assistant fails to parse pdfs which render in viewers and other libraries support #5052 @tboby
  • Latex block is not correctly rendered in Kagi Assistant #5483 @oxlvlnle
  • When asking for markdown formatting advice, it does not display the markdown code block at all #5390 @IsaacThoman
  • Unclear max characters in custom assistant context #5526 @jvo
  • Unable to upload files on Kagi Assistanct macOS Web App #5280 @dreifach
  • Assistant fails to summarize YouTube video #5421 @azdanov
  • Assistant can't access website #4809 @azdanov
  • Add exact citation text tooltip to Quick Answer citations #4309 @Prostagma

Kagi for Android

We're just under 1,000 installs away from being eligible for inclusion in the Android Choice Screen. Help us reach this milestone by downloading the Kagi Android app and sharing it with your friends and family!
You can download the app here: Kagi Android App.

An iOS app is also in development, stay tuned for updates!

With this release you can now hold the Kagi Android icon to add shortcuts for Assistant, Translate, Smallweb, or Universal Summarizer directly to your home screen ( #5014 @Thibaultmol)

  • Location Permission not available for android app #5313 @1j4lzsjs
  • We've tweaked a few things to ensure password managers work in the Kagi Android app
  • When you select text or a URL, you now can (a) Summarize with Kagi, (b) Discuss with Kagi Assistant, or (c) Translate with Kagi
  • Mobile app flashes yellow on launch #5147 @Jesal
    Plus we fixed several other bugs and improved performance for a better mobile experience!

Kagi Translate

  • Translate as you type for Ultimate members
  • Instant translation without page reloads
  • Added language search to Kagi Translate, no more scrolling through the list

Visit translate.kagi.com to try Kagi Translate!

This week on social media

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  • Pricing for teams is the same as regular monthly pricing (per user ofc.). It's only charged if the user actually used Kagi in the billing period too which, honestly, is the only acceptable way to do this. Charging despite not actually providing a service would be quite dishonest IMHO.

    It's pretty cool that the app could soon be shown on the DMA search choice screen. It's bound to cause some confusion though given that, unlike all other search apps, it's paid.

    What the docs are quite a bit unclear though is whether the LLM stuff is actually private and does not exfiltrate your input. It says Kagi itself doesn't store them or use them for any nefarious purposes but it makes no comment on what the LLM providers do with your inputs. That's... worrying. Please clarify @kagihq@mastodon.social.

    • @Atemu Hello, we address this in the privacy policy under "AI tools" -

      https://kagi.com/privacy#AI-Tools

      And this might also help: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/faq/faq.html#is-using-kagi-assistant-better-in-terms-of-privacy-than-using-one-of-the-llm-models-directly

      Let us know if any additional information is needed on that front.

      • @kagihq@mastodon.social thanks for the links. The anchors appear to be broken somehow though.

        Copypasta of relevant sections:

        Content can be anonymously shared with external AI model providers. When done so, it is opted-out of any re-use.

        Additionally, because Kagi is using the API access rather than the frontend, the provider does not use the data for training the LLM models.

        What I gather is that Kagi acts as the proxy and forwards requests on your behalf (+ some caching).

        It boils down to needing to trust the LLM provider that they actually honour the re-use opt-out request but I guess that's always the case with any reseller of that LLM provider.

        What's missing here though that could be very critical for businesses that need to be GDPR-compliant (read: any business operating in the EU) is into which jurisdiction the data is transferred; both Kagi's LLM proxy aswell as the actually used LLM servers. It can't be transferred to the U.S. for instance.