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Discussion: People who use Kagi search don't understand how does Kagi work. (github.com)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months 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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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What are they starting to do that is shady and why do you think don’t respect privacy? (I couldn’t see anything on the document you mentioned)

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (3 children)

They deleted the fact that they are a metasearch engine and added a touch of marketing.

I am not saying they don't respect my privacy, what I am saying is that due to their low value product, it can be replaced with better opensource product that can be guranteed to never leak your data compared to Kagi black box.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Can you give us some example of better open-source product?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Searx.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

*NG. SearX itself is dead.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Yes, that is what I meant.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

OK, and some others alternatives maybe? Just to get a clear picture of what is out there

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

They deleted the fact that they are a metasearch engine

The diff you linked to has the new text of

Our search results also include anonymized API calls to all major search result providers worldwide

You're being very disingenuous. Actually, no - your statement above is flat out wrong.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

they are a metasearch engine

You do know that they have several own indexes as well?