Comment by rpdillon
13 hours ago
They're still ultimately scraping other engines pages to get the results though. The last time this was discussed an engineer on their team told me that they were building their own index internally, but I couldn't get any additional information about that and it doesn't appear to be in their docs.
https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...
Why is it bad if they're using other engines to produce results?
It is a bit weird that a ‘search engine’ is using other companies search results. They aren’t the only one doing this though.
Why reindex everything? You just need to show the relevant information
I like paying to invest in a new sustainable ecosystem. Using SERP API doesn't feel like that to me. See Brave for a counterexample.
If engine A uses the results of engine B, and engine B uses the results of engine A, there is a problem :-).