[Semaphor]

Kagi mixes google, bing, some non-profit small-web SE, and their own index.

[mrweasel]

I don't think they use Bing, but yes, Google, Marginalia, Yandex, Brave and others. I still fail to see how that's different to DuckDuckGo, who also run their own crawler. It's really weird that people are almost hating on DuckDuckGo for how they run their search engine, while applauding Kagi, for doing the same, but with a different business model.

[Semaphor]

Only if they changed that (which they might have as part of their cost-optimization). They said they mixed bing and google results back then.

[speedgoose]

I also assume that Kagi uses some shady residential IPs proxies and similar tricks to scrap Google while DDG has access to the Bing API.

[mrweasel]

You can buy access to the Google Search API, which is what I assume Kagi does. Building your product on being able to circumvent some Google restrictions seems like a bad business move, if you can buy the same service for a reasonable price.

[speedgoose]

Where can I buy it?

[bigtunacan]

https://developers.google.com/custom-search

It's been available for ages. We used it to power the company internal search for a large enterprise I worked at 17 or 18 years ago.

[speedgoose]

Yes this isn’t an API to make a generic search engine.