[gurgunday]

I wonder how it compares to Brave Search API:

https://brave.com/search/api/

Brave has complete search independence and has been doing this for a while, but I hear Kagi has great results, but at the same time I'm perfectly happy with Brave

Would be cool to hear from people who've tried both

[ricardo81]

They claim independence but they still don't have a user agent that has been seen in server logs. Last time I looked they use a browser user agent and follow Googlebot rules in robots.txt. Which is understandable because some webmasters use a whitelist approach to bots given how many there are, and you wouldn't want your search quality to hurt because e.g. Facebook blocks you. And a lot of their results correlate with Google's based on their historical Cliqz data.

Not that I'm against Brave in any way, I think any alternative to Google's dominance is healthy. It just seems the touting of privacy, independence etc from alt search engines often has very loose meanings on those words, or sometimes comes across as god of the gaps platitudes.

[thesuitonym]

Brave browser is adware, and I have no reason to believe their search is different. Kagi at least purports to not be.

[rsanek]

interesting to see the Kagi logo on the linked Brave page

[thesuitonym]

Not really, Kagi talks about how they use Brave here: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/why-kagi/kagi-vs-competition.html...

[dns_snek]

About a year ago when I last tried Brave Search the quality of their results was often poor compared to Google, Bing, and Kagi, however their effort is appreciated and I hope that they continue improving.