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Why I Lost Faith in Kagi (d-shoot.net)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 115 points 5 months ago (2 children)

That was a huge wall of text - TLDR :

Kagi has private investors
Kagi has had some questionable uses of the private funding, such as opening a t-shirt company
Kagi started as a AI focused company and pivoted to search
Kagi is spread too thin over many different projects
Kagi doesn't take privacy, or user data seriously

Fair enough, but as long as google, bing, ddg, etc get more and more unusable there will be fans of alternative searches

Even if Kagi crashes and burns, it has demonstrated there is a market demand for useful search results that users pay for directly.

FWIW I don't use Kagi because of the login / payment info requirements, so I agree broadly with the author. As bad as public searching is, its good enough to not give up privacy.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago

Thanks for the summary!

I'm not a Kagi user but I see people enthusiastically promote it often on Lemmy so I thought it was worth sharing this. After doing this post I noticed it is on HN as well, with 100 comments : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40011314

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've been really enjoying Qwant since I started using it after Mozilla announced their partnership.

I am super annoyed when the "turn of ad blocker" popup shows itself. They'd get many more users by not using that and serving ads from the same domain as searches. I get that they have to pay for their services somehow.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

FYI Qwant shares some of your info with Microsoft, specifically your IP