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Kit

@aires I've been told that if you dig into Kagi's technical details, it's just Google.

9 June at 4:37 | Wall-to-wall | Open on tiggi.es
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Justin du Coeur

@drawingdog Um — no? Not sure what that's referring to, but "just Google" is off-base in some profound ways.

@aires I'm a serious fan of Kagi; happy to chat about it if you're interested.

9 June at 21:26 | Open on social.coop
Kit

@jducoeur @aires Kagi's own FAQ talks about sourcing results in aggregate from other search providers: help.kagi.com/kagi/search-deta

They might have their own algos going on as well, but to me it sounds like what they're selling is mostly "we filter down the results from other providers", and I'm personally happy to do that myself.

10 June at 10:41 | Open on tiggi.es
Justin du Coeur

@drawingdog @aires Well, no -- what they’re selling is higher-quality results and privacy, and they very much have their own algorithms on top of all of those sources. It's not just building a dumb stack of everybody else's results.

Yes, it's probably possible to boil that all down yourself, but to a large degree that's just saying you don't want a search engine at all. I think relatively few people want to go to that level of work.

10 June at 12:43 | Open on social.coop
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