How I Use Kagi

Summary

June 27, 2025 web tech What’s going on, Internet? I’ve been a happy Kagi user since early 2023 and have spent a bit of time curating my ideal Internet search experience using the tools Kagi offers. Kagi is a premium search engine that puts you first. Unlike traditional search engines that monetise your attention through ads and data tracking, Kagi delivers clean, accurate results while maintaining complete privacy. Kagi is built on a simple principle, you're our customer, not our product. The main selling point for me is that Kagi isn’t powered by AdTech and allows us who have the money to pay a monthly fee for a pleasant search experience. I’m paying $14 USD/month for the Duo Family plan that gives me and my wife a Professional Plan each. That alone would make me happy, nice ad free web searching. A subscription worth having. With payment out of the way the two features I absolutely love are Lenses and Personal Results. Lenses allow you to customise searches by specifying which websites you see in your results. Kagi provide a few Lenses by default, but you’re also able to create your own. You can create as many lenses as you want, but can only have up to 20 activated at a time at the moment. Personalised Results allow you to block, lower, raise or pin particular websites/domains which determines how they’re showing in your search results. These are easily managed right away from the search results page by clicking on the little shield icon where each of the personalised options are available. Kagi also make Domain Insights available so you can check out the most promoted or blocked domains. If you already have an account and are logged in you can easily kick start your block list from this page by toggling any of the listed domains to blocked. You can also lower, raise or pin any of the domains too. I’ve been curating my block list since I started with Kagi and was pretty happy with it until I came across this post Sneaky SEO Shenanigans Suck from Bobby Hiltz which...