My pushback on this idea and your previous comment in this thread is that a search engine is a service being provided to me.
I pay Kagi, they give me search results. It’s not an ecosystem. None of their competitors are all that much of an ecosystem, either.
If Kagi goes out of business tomorrow it’s really not my problem, with the exception of the prorated balance of the subscription.
The only thing that really matters is that running searches in Kagi is a better experience in Kagi than Google or Bing or DuckDuckGo or most of the rest. That’s what makes me pay for it.
I don’t really need to know how the sausage is made (except for the privacy aspect).
I wouldn't be surprised to hear that this was always the plan for Kagi. Google has been rather distracted and complacent in their, former, core business. If Kagi is bootstrapping their indexing to emerge on the other end of this as the next "good" search, then good on them.
I'll continue to support them because it's a great experience.
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.
My pushback on this idea and your previous comment in this thread is that a search engine is a service being provided to me.
I pay Kagi, they give me search results. It’s not an ecosystem. None of their competitors are all that much of an ecosystem, either.
If Kagi goes out of business tomorrow it’s really not my problem, with the exception of the prorated balance of the subscription.
The only thing that really matters is that running searches in Kagi is a better experience in Kagi than Google or Bing or DuckDuckGo or most of the rest. That’s what makes me pay for it.
I don’t really need to know how the sausage is made (except for the privacy aspect).
It is a bit weird that a ‘search engine’ is using other companies search results. They aren’t the only one doing this though.
The search engine is a lot more than the index. And they have their own index
I wouldn't be surprised to hear that this was always the plan for Kagi. Google has been rather distracted and complacent in their, former, core business. If Kagi is bootstrapping their indexing to emerge on the other end of this as the next "good" search, then good on them.
I'll continue to support them because it's a great experience.
Why reindex everything? You just need to show the relevant information
If engine A uses the results of engine B, and engine B uses the results of engine A, there is a problem :-).