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Kagi mixes google, bing, some non-profit small-web SE, and their own index.
by Semaphor 3y ago
Kagi mixes google, bing, some non-profit small-web SE, and their own index.
- mrweasel 3y agoI don't think they use Bing, but yes, Google, Marginalia, Yandex, Brave and others. I still fail to see how that's different to DuckDuckGo, who also run their own crawler. It's really weird that people are almost hating on DuckDuckGo for how they run their search engine, while applauding Kagi, for doing the same, but with a different business model.
- speedgoose 3y agoI also assume that Kagi uses some shady residential IPs proxies and similar tricks to scrap Google while DDG has access to the Bing API.
- mrweasel 3y agoYou can buy access to the Google Search API, which is what I assume Kagi does. Building your product on being able to circumvent some Google restrictions seems like a bad business move, if you can buy the same service for a reasonable price.
- speedgoose 3y agoWhere can I buy it?
- bigtunacan 3y agohttps://developers.google.com/custom-search https://developers.google.com/custom-search It's been available for ages. We used it to power the company internal search for a large enterprise I worked at 17 or 18 years ago.
- speedgoose 3y agoYes this isn’t an API to make a generic search engine.
- Semaphor 3y agoOnly if they changed that (which they might have as part of their cost-optimization). They said they mixed bing and google results back then.