Comment by yreg
7 months ago
True, but what do I as a customer care? It's not like I'm building some business on their APIs or anything.
If they go down, I will switch to another search engine… no need to do so preemptively from my PoV.
7 months ago
True, but what do I as a customer care? It's not like I'm building some business on their APIs or anything.
If they go down, I will switch to another search engine… no need to do so preemptively from my PoV.
Because "going down" doesn't necessarily mean _shutting_ down-- it could be a sale as well. Considering the stated attitude towards privacy, that should worry you if privacy is your concern.
All search engines are problematic in terms of privacy.
One of the main selling points of Kagi is privacy. It's featured on the main landing page, they have a page dedicated to it, and it's mentioned in pretty much every sales pitch they will make. Kagi's audience is also comprised of people who have that value as paying for a search engine means divesting from adtech surveillance.
So, it does not matter that "all search engines are problematic in terms of privacy"-- this one is marketed to not be. That's why people have concerns about how serious they're taking that committment and why people would hold them to a higher standard. It's also why a sale to a company which does not respect privacy is potentially a major issue, especially if current customer data isn't being handled in the manner they had expected.
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It you want to know when Evernote went downhill, it’s precisely the moment they started selling backpacks.
Every tech company I've ever seen has had free t-shirts to give out at some point. While I don't think it was a smart use of limited funds, it's certainly not a major pivot to physical products like Evernote.