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by rnd0 747 days ago
Isn't Kagi dependant on Google for their results? Doesn't seem tenable in the long-term to me.
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Are you thinking of ddg? Afaik kagi runs their own independent engine from scratch.
Kagi is a Meta Search engine (it uses other search engines API e.g. Google, Yandex, Brave Search, Marginalia, ...) + it has its own (tiny) index, their own index mostly consits of their "Small Web" pages.
>Our own index of the finest results augmented by the results from the best search engines on the market.

https://kagi.com/

The design is too monochromatic.
DDG uses Bing. Them blocking trackers except when they come from Microsoft (because of this search engine deal) is why I don't really care about using DDG.

You can use bangs to search on Google, but that's not the default.