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by dannywarner 1225 days ago
I find it does well with ebooks. I haven't tried with pdfs or videos. The quality of the AndiSearch summaries for the things I use every day like articles, Wikipedia and technical documentation is very good.

The Summarize button is on the search results, therefore you don't need to visit a separate site and paste in the url. Additionally, you already know when a summary is available as the button only shows when it is. It is new but already I feel that it changes how you use a search engine having this feature available right there on the results.

The Kagi one said 'No summary available at this moment, please try again later.' for many of the urls I tried.

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>I haven't tried with pdfs or videos

It does seem it's not able to do that.

>The Kagi one said 'No summary available at this moment, please try again later.' for many of the urls I tried.

I honestly find AndiSearch more finicky in not showing the "Summarize" button or giving error.

It is reliable for me. Here is a test to compare. I did a search for 'google chatgpt clone'.

AndiSearch generates a good summary for every result.

https://andisearch.com/?q=google+chatgpt+clone

Maybe Kagi has HN hug of death but it returns the 'no summary available' message for me now.

>Maybe Kagi has HN hug of death but it returns the 'no summary available' message for me now.

what are you entering? It's not a search engine, you need to insert a link to an article, book, pdf, video etc... Look at the examples.

I am (obviously) copying and pasting the same urls that appear in the search results I shared individually into the url entry form on the Kagi summarizer page.
If this is the case then it all works for me on the Kagi's summarizer (using your example).