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Discussion: People who use Kagi search don't understand how does Kagi work. (github.com)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I want to start by inviting everyone who are looking into this post to check the git commit linked before reading and after that read their current page, it will make more sense.

I think most people don't understand the fact that Kagi is meta-search engine which literally collect the results of other search engines and display it and add very small amount of results from their index(tecilis).

They are starting to act shady this year(check the attached git commit to see their changes to their documentation page).

People basically pay them to search Yandex and Brave for them.

Before anyone say but privacy, they are closed source and there is a better open source meta search engines which actually respect your privacy and need your donations more than Kagi shareholders.

Open source alternative:

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

How so?

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

They updated their description of how their search engine works. The new description is still factual, while being slightly easier to understand. The new description also has some fancy marketing flair. They still make it pretty clear that they use other search engines via anonymous calls.

I wouldn't call that shady at all... Unless maybe I'm completely missing the point here.