We do indeed have our own index (in addition to using external indexes). Every Kagi search result page will tell you the percent of results coming from our own

We do indeed have our own index (in addition to using external indexes). Every Kagi search result page will tell you the percent of results coming from our own index (for logged in users only currently). For example, take this search : https://kagi.com/search?q=steve+jobs&r=us&sh=OP2gxAxk3KEV_jMZH1_RHA https://kagi.com/search?q=steve+jobs&r=us&sh=OP2gxAxk3KEV_jM... 60% of results you see are coming from our own index. For most queries it is 10-30%. If you use the 'Non-commercial' filter this number may go up to 100% (because our index focus on non-commercial part of the web).