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by SyneRyder 5 days ago
Unfortunately, that's nearly identical to the text from September 2024, with the only change being an increase in the number of external search sources:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240901052114/https://help.kagi...

I'm aware of their Teclis index, I used to be a paying API customer. Teclis is very small. It's primarily an index of indie blog websites (smallweb) mostly crawled via RSS feeds. That itself is a very cool idea, and a great supplemental index to have! But it isn't the kind of index that could ever replace their Brave / Yandex / SerpAPI dependencies. The Teclis API is even supplemented with results from Marginalia Search, a much larger index created by one person with less funding.

There's some technical info here on how Teclis is indexed, eg Readability.js for content extraction & Elasticsearch for the full-text indexing:

https://teclis.com/

Kagi's short infoline about index distribution sounds new to me though. I would love to see a blog post from Kagi about that & where they're at with query coverage.