They also have their own index. But in any case, what matters here is the product UX itself not the internal details, and they do offer a classic search experience
Until you realize that Kagi only works well because it uses a (paid) third-party API which behind the scenes does a classic Google search, scrapes its results in real time, throws out the ads, and then returns the cleaned-up results.
If Google Search changes, then Kagi's search will be impacted directly.
The other search indexes are largely negligible in comparison: [0]
> This is not a competitive market. It is a monopoly with a distant second place.
> The search index is irreplaceable infrastructure. Building a comparable one from scratch is like building a parallel national railroad. Microsoft spent roughly $100 billion over 20 years on Bing and still holds single-digit share. If Microsoft cannot close the gap, no startup can do it alone.
I'd never pay for, let alone use, a search engine* that has an official Discord group.
* Kagi seems to just scrape and provide a mix of other search engine's results, meaning it's really just a metasearch engine.
They also have their own index. But in any case, what matters here is the product UX itself not the internal details, and they do offer a classic search experience
Unfortunately some hip folks got it in their head that the correct way to provide support is discord.
Time for Kagi MCP to become available to subscribers!
[1] https://github.com/kagisearch/kagimcp
Until you realize that Kagi only works well because it uses a (paid) third-party API which behind the scenes does a classic Google search, scrapes its results in real time, throws out the ads, and then returns the cleaned-up results.
If Google Search changes, then Kagi's search will be impacted directly.
This isn't entirely true, because they use more than one search index.
The other search indexes are largely negligible in comparison: [0]
> This is not a competitive market. It is a monopoly with a distant second place.
> The search index is irreplaceable infrastructure. Building a comparable one from scratch is like building a parallel national railroad. Microsoft spent roughly $100 billion over 20 years on Bing and still holds single-digit share. If Microsoft cannot close the gap, no startup can do it alone.
[0]: https://blog.kagi.com/waiting-dawn-search
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