 Hello, Fediverse! We're Kagi, and we're on a mission to create a friendlier, more human-centric internet that has the users' best interest in mind. Our core product is a search engine that is ad-free, tracking-free, and fully supported by our users. We've worked hard to deliver a high-quality, fast, and reliable search experience without compromising user privacy: https://kagi.com/ Excited to engage with the community here.  54 comments
 @deepy who? I think you might be referring to a different search engine? (Brave)  @kagihq I understand it’s a paid for service but I don’t understand why I need to give you my data (email address) and how I can trust this won’t be used for tracking. For example, what happens if you are bought out? @PhilipKing @kagihq then just use a throwaway email? @thibaultmol @kagihq @simplelogin Throwaway email still might allow a profile to be built and traced. I’m trying to understand why they don’t use a verified trust service to manage payments. That just provides them with a yes/no every time I wanted to search. (It breaks the link and eases concerns about what might happen in the future) @thomastospace @thibaultmol That’s all well and good but I can’t choose not to have an account. @kagihq Welcome! I have been happily using your search for a year now. I like overall quality of the search engine and clever non invasive integration of llm. @janhamacek May I ask you? What is your long-term experience with localized (cs :-) ) results/usage (if any), especially for kids? @belohoub I use it in Czech from time to time and I am pretty happy with the results. Didn’t have inclination to go back to Google for any search for quite a while now. Even llm summarization works very well imo. I don’t however have any experience with usage for kids.    @kagihq Maybe consider verifying the Kagi website so people can verify the authenticity? https://joinmastodon.org/verification @kagihq hey folks, how do we know our data is not being used for gen ai stuff? @amanjeev Thanks for inquiring! We address this in our latest blog post: "Since we don’t show ads (and never will) and don’t train on subscriber data there’s no reason for us to harvest your data, track your clicks, searches, threads, or build a profile of you. When we use third party models via their APIs it is protected under terms of service that forbid using data for training their models" @kagihq welcome! Does it work in iOS private mode yet? Without having to authenticate every time I want to do a search? That’s why I gave up last time. @thiagocsf @kagihq It does for any browser that allows you to set custom url for private search. You put in url with auth key and you are automatically logged in even in private window. So it works for Firefox, Brave, Orion, even Chrome I think. I am not sure about Safari.  @kagihq Hi, Cagi! Your Orion browser is such a great product. Hope you will build it up further @kagihq @jpthuot03 ok, yeah, search engine that actually allows you to pay money rather than selling your data _and_ has a fediverse presence, colour me interested.  I see some comments here doubting the pay-for-search business model. I understand you’re already financially sustainable from your 30k+ subscribers, with no VC investment. With few compromises too: price is fair, quality is good, rapid development pace (surprisingly-long list of fixes and new features every month for such a small dev team 👏). I too didn’t think you could succeed, at first, but it seems you are thriving. (2/3) One risk I worry about is having your access to the large search indexes cut. Ultimately, Kagi is reliant on Google and/or Bing to provide long-tail results, and it’s not inconceivable that they might want to renegotiate their relationship with Kagi at some point. 🤔 (3/3) @linkert Thanks so much! These are great questions for our community Discord so that the wider team could engage: https://kagi.com/discord @kagihq hope the search gets back into focus and the ai work gets less. I don’t need a google copy    @kagihq If your averages on your website are correct, then majority or users will not use their quota anyways. |
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@kagihq Welcome! 👋 It would be a good idea to verify the web link in your profile so people know this is your official profile: https://joinmastodon.org/verification