[wiether]

Fortunately Kagi has got nothing in common with Qwant.

Qwant is, from the beginning, a scam to grab public funding. They made tons of promises but actually never delivered on them. Worst, they even lied on what the product could do, pretending to provide results from their own index while returning results from Bing. If it wasn't enough, there's also stories of management misconduct on employees. Some stuff is public and partly told on the Wikipedia page : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwant#Controversies It's a classic "we'll make a French/European [X]" with [X] being Google, Facebook, AWS... There's at least one project like that every year for two decades now. Every time it's a failure from the outside, but the founders are quite successful in pocketing millions of public funding from France/Europe.

Meanwhile, Kagi is "let's make a search engine for power users willing to pay for it". They're not here to take on Google. They're not here to grab public funding. They're making a product for which people are willing to pay. They deliver on absolutely everything they say. Proof is in the pudding.

I'm a happy Kagi user/customer for a few months now, but what I find the most satisfying is not the website itself, it's how they are building it.

While every big company is falling for the _enshitification_ of their products, seeing Kagi doing the exact opposite, and yet being clear that their goal is to take our money each month, is honestly quite refreshing.