I recently (as in just now) bought a month of the Kagi Search engine to give it a whirl. THEN I heard they use Yandex which is Russian and well… Russia and Ukraine. Any truth to this?
yandex is about 2% of our total cost, to put things into perspective
I encourage subscribers to check out this thread and weigh in.
They also pay Brave for their results
Lmao these losers are paying for brave search results? Just go to search.brave.com its free hahahaha
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Yes they use Yandex along with the others.
Personally I don’t use them.
They use a lot of sources to get the best results: their index, and then others. I doubt much goes to Yandex but they don’t specify.
They pull from several other search indexes, and they have awesome features. Infinitely more valuable than an overpriced coffee for $5/month.
I love the quick summarizer.
I only use Kagi when I can’t find something on other search engines. It often delivers where others can’t. But so far the free 100 searches have lasted me 3 months and I think will likely last me years at the rate I’m using them.
Even if there was any truth to this, a good search engine remains unimpressed by world politics.
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Like ~95% of the rest of the internet that uses cloud infrastructure.
Google, AWS, or Azure
What is your point?
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I’m someone who builds cloud infrastructure for a living. I only touch AWS (Amazon), but the same applies to Azure (Microsoft) and GCP (Google).
Kagi is private. Saying that they “rely” on Google because they use GCP is akin to saying that the US Army relies on General Motors because they use Hummers. It’s just a provider. They’re renting virtual machines, compute power, storage, and network bandwidth nothing more. You can use GCP/Azure/AWS without your data ever being visible by GCP/Azure/AWS. It’s not because you use GCP that you have to use AdSense/Analytics/Fonts, etc. They are completely separate.
Politicians would have a field day with all the cloud providers if using one thing forced you to use everything.
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So you’re saying it’s ok to trust those cloud providers
What kind of trust are you referring to? I trust that they take great pains to protect their cloud customer’s data. CGP is not Google Search is not Google advertising.
Do I trust them to do the right thing environmentally? No. Geopolitically? No. But let’s not get these all confused. They do support surveillance tech but surreptitiously mining their cloud customer’s data has the potential to sink their entire business overnight.
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Microsoft, Google and Amazon wouldn’t have cloud infrastructure businesses if they were snooping on clients.
Educate yourself even a little bit before taking a stance like this.
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Yes, it’s very clear you’ve made it this far in life completely avoiding any criticism.
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it’s not like they are the only providers. There’s plenty of other choice
