I'm only replying to the praise here - I too, although I haven't fully switched, had a very enticing moment with Kagi when it returned a result that couldn't even be found on Google at any page in the results. This really sold me on Kagi and I've been going back and forth with some queries, but I have to say that between LLMs, Perplexity, and Google often answering my queries right on the search page, I just don't have that many queries left for Kagi.
If Kagi would somehow merge with Perplexity, now that would be something.
Kagi does offer AI features in their higher subscription tier, including summary, research assistance, and a couple others. Plus I think they have basically a frontend for GPT-4 that uses their search engine for browsing, and they just added vision support to it today.
I don't subscribe to those features or any AI tool yet, just pointing out there could be a version of Kagi that is able to replace your Chatgpt sub and save you money
Is it as good as Perplexity though? I use ChatGPT for different purposes, I just thought that if Kagi would ally with Perplexity and benefit from its index (I'm not sure what Perplexity uses), it could get really good. I've only recently tried using Perplexity and I get more use out of it than I would with Kagi, it doesn't just do summarization, but I haven't seen what Kagi does with research assistance.
It's been a while since I've used Perplexity, but I've been finding the Kagi Assistant super useful. I'm on the ultimate plan, so I get access to the `Expert` assistant. It's been pretty great.
If Kagi would somehow merge with Perplexity, now that would be something.