[raincole]

Kagi relies on Google search.

[hootz]

But the results are still 1000x better than Google's. Something is being done there.

[baggachipz]

True in large part, but they've been diversifying their providers in the expectation that Google shut everybody out.

[akazantsev]

The thing is, they were diversifying with Russia's Yandex... Which is worse for some.

[baggachipz]

Yes yes, they use Yandex for a little bit. They use lots of providers.

At this point with Google contributing so much to the Trump administration, I'm not sure which is worse.

[dgellow]

Sure but we are talking about the UI here, not the index being used

[raincole]

But if Kagi manages to become a serious competitor in the search engine space, Google will cut them off from their index. Why will not they?

[IIsi50MHz]

Last I read, Kagi is using data from 3rd-party scraping of Google results, because buying directly from Google comes with onerous limitations:

- Must not alter the order of Google's search results - Must not alter the appearance or placement of Google-inserted ads

[dgellow]

It’s possible but they would need to be so massive to even just start making a dent in google market share. And Google hasn’t blocked larger search engines from using their index

[AndroTux]

They mostly use Bing, at least from my testing.