[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