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Depends on how you describe "useful." Kagi is a profitable search company that satisfies its customers while competing directly with Google. They aren't useful
by troyvit 3y ago
Depends on how you describe "useful." Kagi is a profitable search company that satisfies its customers while competing directly with Google. They aren't useful in the sense that they're taking marketshare from Google, but they are useful to their user base. I hope they continue being able to scrape sites with the same freedom as other search engines.
Edit: As mmcclure points out Kagi actually doesn't index much. So that's a bad example that might invalidate my point.
- mmcclure 3y agoI'm a happy Kagi user, but they might be somewhat a bad example. I suspect their actual indexing work is pretty limited, and they only seem to claim that it's for indexing "niche" stuff. > Our data includes anonymized API calls to traditional search indexes like Google, Yandex, Mojeek and Brave, specialized search engines like Marginalia, and sources of vertical information like Apple, Wikipedia, Open Meteo, Yelp, TripAdvisor and other APIs. Typically every search query on Kagi will call a number of different sources at the same time, all with the purpose of bringing the best possible search results to the user. source: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...
- troyvit 3y agoThanks I updated my comment. Also, damn that's cool.