{"id":29475,"date":"2025-09-23T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=29475"},"modified":"2025-09-22T13:01:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T17:01:32","slug":"tech-tip-kagi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2025\/09\/23\/tech-tip-kagi\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Tip: Kagi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"456\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/kagi-Chase-Masters-600x456.png\" alt=\"A side-by-side comparison of the Kagi and Google search engines. Kagi shows relevant search results such as documentation and discussion threads while Google shows sponsored links and ads.\" class=\"wp-image-29477\" style=\"width:562px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/kagi-Chase-Masters-600x456.png 600w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/kagi-Chase-Masters-300x228.png 300w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/kagi-Chase-Masters-768x584.png 768w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/kagi-Chase-Masters-665x505.png 665w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/kagi-Chase-Masters.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This month&#8217;s tip is a privacy-focused search engine that prioritizes delivering high-quality, relevant results without ads or tracking: <a href=\"https:\/\/kagi.com\/\">Kagi<\/a>. It offers unique features like customizable search lenses, the ability to block or boost specific domains, and advanced filters for region, recency, and relevance, allowing users to tailor their search experience extensively. By paying a subscription fee \u2014 starting at $5 per month \u2014 users support a model that removes advertising conflicts and promotes a cleaner, more humane web, while gaining more control and better privacy compared to free search engines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What search engine are you using? Does it have any unique features? Please share in the comments below!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have a cool app, tool, or tech tip you\u2019d like to share? <a href=\"mailto:mastersc@umich.edu\">Contact Chase Masters.<\/a> Please note that Tech Tips are personal recommendations and might not be officially endorsed or supported by U-M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month&#8217;s tip is Kagi: a privacy-focused search engine that prioritizes delivering high-quality, relevant results without ads or tracking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":9792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[121,1163],"class_list":["post-29475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-privacy","tag-search-engine"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark-60x42.png",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Chase Masters, University Library","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mastersc\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"This month's tip is Kagi: a privacy-focused search engine that prioritizes delivering high-quality, relevant results without ads or tracking.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29478,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29475\/revisions\/29478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}