Enable sharing of search results pages with people who lack a Kagi account

alvanrahimli

Vlad This is very good idea and I see myself using it a lot. And this can also attract users to kagi, as they get to see what is possible with this.

The easiest way is to just copy and share url from url bar, but if this will take long time to implement, a hidden button that gets revealed when hovering over search bar, at the left side of "X" button (that deletes search query).

Browsing6853

I liked The New York Times solution to do something similar:

GrzegorzP

I can see this feature is "done", and "Next release", but how do I actually use it? I checked help section, and clicked almost every button on my search results and I can't find a way to share my search results with someone who doesn't have a kagi account.

Vlad

GrzegorzP
You can find it in two places:

More menu:

End of search results:

@AlexAidun can you add this as a feature to doc

AlexAidun

Done! https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/share-results.html

eproxus

This does not seem to work on mobile (Safari in iOS). Is it supposed to?

terminalnode

Instead of a share-button, would it be possible to add some kind of hash to the URL by default that makes it available to anyone with the link? It would make sharing a lot more convenient. Possibly it could be turned on/off in the settings, if it really bothers people.

Vlad

terminalnode In order for share result, it needs to be stored first. Currently this is done on demand when user clicks share link. Doing it automatically will have all sorts of consequences (first we do not want to be saving user queries/results) but also storage to save these results etc.

synapse

I would enjoy the "special share URL" approach:

Perform search
Click "share result"
Copy-paste URL with cache key

To avoid the creation of a Search API side-channel, apply a low daily rate limit.

I'd be happy to have this feature 2-5 times a day. The optimal rate is the answer to an equation that factors in cost of search vs. chance of acquisition, and is not so interesting as the existence of a feature where the limit is non-zero.

The obvious benefit from Kagi's side is organic advertising: Each cached URL, when visited by someone who isn't logged into Kagi, is an onramp to a Trial account. "Wanna keep searching without getting tracked?" or whatever is the pitch.

The use-cases that I'm trying to cover:

In learning scenarios, "let me Kagi that for you" (people ask things they could ask a computer)
In research scenarios, "here's what I found for us" (saves manually summarising a search result)
In propaganda scenarios, "here's how I search privately."

You can consider expiring the results at some reasonable limit that is reasonable.

z64

Hi synapse ,

Just to clarify, this feature is implemented. You can find it in the "More" menu in the search header, and at the footer of the page.

In implementation, this does not share the results, but instead gives you a link that anyone without a Kagi account can perform that exact search for free; so the results should be largely similar, minus any personalizations you've done.

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