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They are paying for API access, not scraping results. Why would they be blocked?

• endisneigh 5y ago
  Where did you see that they’re paying for API access? Their FAQ says that they’re making anonymized requests but don’t go into more details than that. That being said, even if they did pay if they have any traction at all they’d still be blocked. Why would their competitors help them? In any case I doubt it will take off, people who are poor aren’t going to pay 10 bucks a month just to search when there are dozens of free competitors. Happy to be proven wrong.
  • jsnell 5y ago
    If they were just illegitly scraping results, they could not provide any kind of consistency in quality as they would be getting blocked on and off. And the small search engines like DDG, Startpage, Ecosia, etc have been making these kinds of deals for more than a decade and with more users than Kagi is likely to ever have without having their contracts terminated due to "too much traction".
  • eitland 5y ago
    Late but I have texted a number of times with the Kagi team and they do pay for API access.