Kagi gets part of their index from Google, per the article, so perhaps that's the reason Kagi still works. Wonder if Vlad and Kagi will do (or have done) the calculus to see if buying crawlability from Reddit itself is cheaper than buying results from Google for Reddit search.
Basically all 'independent' search engines piggyback off Google or Bing
https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...
>Our search results also include anonymized API calls to all major search result providers worldwide
>Basically all 'independent' search engines piggyback off Google or Bing
Incorrect: https://www.mojeek.com/about/why-mojeek
also brave: https://brave.com/search/#independent
weird, I've never heard of mojeek before and this is the 2nd comment in this thread I've seen mentioning it.
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From the second paragraph of the article:
> Searching for Reddit still works on Kagi, an independent, paid search engine that buys part of its search index from Google.
thanks i only read the first paragraph. then i went to kagi discord and they provided more context
Kagi gets part of their index from Google, per the article, so perhaps that's the reason Kagi still works. Wonder if Vlad and Kagi will do (or have done) the calculus to see if buying crawlability from Reddit itself is cheaper than buying results from Google for Reddit search.
Not yet but it's something we want to look into.
Kagi pays to use APIs from Mojeek and Google