Kagi has had some questionable uses of the private funding, such as opening a t-shirt company
Kagi started as a AI focused company and pivoted to search
Kagi is spread too thin over many different projects
Kagi doesn’t take privacy, or user data seriously
Fair enough, but as long as google, bing, ddg, etc get more and more unusable there will be fans of alternative searches
Even if Kagi crashes and burns, it has demonstrated there is a market demand for useful search results that users pay for directly.
FWIW I don’t use Kagi because of the login / payment info requirements, so I agree broadly with the author. As bad as public searching is, its good enough to not give up privacy.
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Fair enough, but as long as google, bing, ddg, etc get more and more unusable there will be fans of alternative searches
Even if Kagi crashes and burns, it has demonstrated there is a market demand for useful search results that users pay for directly.
FWIW I don’t use Kagi because of the login / payment info requirements, so I agree broadly with the author. As bad as public searching is, its good enough to not give up privacy.