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by MostlyStable 851 days ago
As a paying customer, I agree that the only thing I care about from Kagi is search, but...I think that there is a very non-trivial chance that in the near future, search almost entirely gets eaten by AI. It makes sense to me that a search company would be exploring AI and its interaction with search. While I hope this doesn't become the main focus (until and unless it has to be), the history of companies like Kodak (who was a "film" company and therefore chose to ignore digital cameras) should be instructive. If they completely ignore the potential replacement to search, they might get good at search just in time for that to become irrelevant.
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This feature isn't specifically to do with AI though is it? Unless I missed something (likely).

My understanding was that it was about adding a "search with Kagi" thing to your site and triggering Kagi's indexer to index your site as a side effect.

I pay for search, and would also pay for email (currently paying Google). Speaking of Google, I hate the Kagi ā€œgā€ logo.
Same, it sometimes confuses me and I think I'm on Google. But maybe that's exactly the point.
How do you get confused? It's orange and black, completely different from Google's.

But... it reminds me of old-school Google logo, before they changed it to the simple sans-serif new one.