SearchGPT/Perplexity like enhancement for the Assistant

Kel

I'd love an enhancement for The Assistant where you can optionally use toggles (just like for the web access toggle) to make the Assistant show you additional image results, news results and video sources with timestamps results. The end result of the Assistant's output would be like Perpelxity or SearchGPT. If you need an example of what I mean, just give Perplexity a try (it's free) and you'll know what I mean.

Oh, of course we also need a link you can use for a custom bang.

greyfivenine8244

A very good idea. In general, I also have to say that the design of the assistant is successful! Nevertheless, your suggestions would be a great addition. But I think it could be a little more work.

Vlad

That sounds like these companies are trying to compensate for the lack of a proper search engine. Kagi already has proper image/news/video search results that is much more powerful that already exists in either of these products.

Can you give us more context in terms what exactly whoud you like to see, why, what is the use case and why it cna not be accomplished with tools Kagi already provides?

Kel

Vlad

As I imagine it, it's a combination of the features Kagi already offers to improve research with the Assistant.

The Assistant gets a predefined research mode - just like the predefined custom code Assistant, but for research. With this, in addition to the Assistant's output, image and video results are displayed on the topic being researched. These image and video results serve as sources and supplements to the Assistant's output.

These additional image and video results could come from Kagi's search results. In this way, you would have Kagi's image and video search engine and the Assistant combined.

For example, you're researching the colony collapse disorder. The Assistant could display additional graphics with charts from the internet in its output, showing the trend of the number of honey-producing bee colonies over the past decades, or link to YouTube videos that deal with this topic. If possible, a source citation from the text of the Assistant's output could be a YouTube video with a timestamp to verify the accuracy of the Assistant's output.

I hope that helps to explain my idea. As mentioned in the OP, I recommend trying Perplexity, since it's basically exactly what I have in mind here.