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I believe Kagi just pays to use Google's and Microsoft's indexes.

• bigyikes 3y ago
  Google sells their index?? (Microsoft famously sells theirs to DuckDuckGo, right?)
  • manquer 3y ago
    Bing index has always been licensable , Yahoo was using it too, and they have other customers . I don’t think Google has a publicly known licensing deal ,
  • ilaksh 3y ago
    They sell API access to Google searching.
  • mrweasel 3y ago
    Microsoft sells Bing to a ton of search engines, it has been the go to for everyone who wanted to run a search engine. Ecosia have also been relying on Bing, but recently announced that they've now added Google as well.
• metabagel 3y ago
  I don’t think that’s correct.
• migrane3 3y ago
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