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Discussion: People who use Kagi search don't understand how does Kagi work. (github.com)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Dot@feddit.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] asap@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

The page you linked clearly explains that they use other search engine sources, which makes your post either wrong or intentionally misleading:

Our search results also include anonymized API calls to all major search result providers worldwide, specialized search engines like Marginalia, and sources of vertical information such as Wolfram Alpha, Apple, Wikipedia, Open Meteo, Yelp, TripAdvisor, and other APIs. Typically, every search query on Kagi will call a dozen or so different sources simultaneously

[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The page you linked clearly explains that they use other search engine sources

it doesn't specify which ones, though.

Our search results also include anonymized API calls to:

  • all major search result providers worldwide, [such as?]
  • specialized search engines like Marginalia,
  • and sources of vertical information such as Wolfram Alpha, Apple, Wikipedia, Open Meteo, Yelp, TripAdvisor, and other APIs
[–] asap@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

it doesn’t specify which ones, though.

OP specifically stated that "They deleted the fact that they are a metasearch engine".

Which goes back to my original point that the post is pointless as OP is either wrong or being intentionally misleading.

[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You specifically stated that "They deleted the fact that they are a metasearch engine".

I specifically didn't.

[–] asap@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Touche.