Time to pay for Kagi everyone!

GaryBluto 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.

	▲	dgellow 7 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		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
	▲	zeafoamrun 8 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Unfortunately some hip folks got it in their head that the correct way to provide support is discord.

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loehnsberg 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Time for Kagi MCP to become available to subscribers!

[1] https://github.com/kagisearch/kagimcp

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Hackbraten 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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.

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BrunoBernardino 8 hours ago | parent [-]

This isn't entirely true, because they use more than one search index.

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Hackbraten 8 hours ago | parent [-]

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

	▲	AlienRobot 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This is a problem of their own invention. Nobody said you have to index the entire web. The web would probably be a lot healthier if we had several small search engines that focused on niches rather than 5 failed search engines that tried to index everything that was ever written and then ended up paying Bing.