Comment by manquer

Perhaps, but each time I do go to Google the results are painfully bad. I don't think Kagi is just proxying Google- while they do use it as a core source, they rerank much better

The blog post talks about that specifically - Bing unlike Google does have Index licensing program but their terms forbid reordering that is key reason Kagi is not also using Bing in their index mix.

My point is Kagi is similar to a car tuning company like Hennessey, Brabus they take a base product and make it much better for a premium, they are not selling knock-offs.