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I’m a paid user of Kagi, and having experienced downtime made me realize how much I took Google’s reliability for granted. Google has never gone down on me, may
by sedatk 3y ago
I’m a paid user of Kagi, and having experienced downtime made me realize how much I took Google’s reliability for granted. Google has never gone down on me, maybe once in the last two decades. Losing access to your search engine is quite crippling. I LOVE Kagi, that’s why I pay for it, but experiencing downtime in my second month was quite off-putting. I love post-mortems, but I hope to never read them. :)
That said, I hope this experience makes Kagi even more resilient and reliable.
- tsegers 3y agoAs another paying user of Kagi I wonder what prevented you from using another search engine for the six hours that Kagi was unavailable. Search engines are not like your email provider or ISP in that you're locked in.
- wiether 3y ago> I wonder what prevented you from using another search engine Well, seeing that Kagi was down, I tried to switch to Google by doing "!g xxx" which gave me the same result than my previous "xxx" search. I took me a few seconds to realize how stupid I was and then typing "google.com" in the address bar.
- sedatk 3y agoThe thing is, I never thought Kagi was down and thought that it must be a problem with my configuration or connection. That was how much I trusted in Kagi. I didn’t spend whole downtime online though.
- pbronez 3y ago100%. This outage and the (unrelated) bug on the new mobile safari extension were jarring. I definitely rely on snappy & ubiquitous to Kagi!