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So.... this is about a pay-subscription search engine called 'Kagi' out of Palo Alto, founded 2018. Made me think and have to do some digging for the 'Kagi' ou
by Thoreandan 3y ago
So.... this is about a pay-subscription search engine called 'Kagi' out of Palo Alto, founded 2018.
Made me think and have to do some digging for the 'Kagi' out of Berkeley founded in the 90s where you could register your shareware purchases in the days before PayPal. Which seems to have been largely scrubbed from history outside of some WayBack snapshots.
https://www.macrumors.com/2016/08/01/kagi-shuts-down/ https://www.macrumors.com/2016/08/01/kagi-shuts-down/
https://tidbits.com/2016/08/04/kagi-shuts-down-after-falling-prey-to-fraud/ https://tidbits.com/2016/08/04/kagi-shuts-down-after-falling...
- dickfickling 3y agoThe two are unrelated, but they do reference the shareware platform in their FAQ. https://help.kagi.com/kagi/faq/faq.html#are-you-affiliated-with-the-legendary-kagi-shareware-platform https://help.kagi.com/kagi/faq/faq.html#are-you-affiliated-w...
- bombcar 3y agoTechnically they're tenuously related as apparently they bought the name (and maybe the domain?) from whomever got it from the bankruptcy.
- callalex 3y agoWow, that was a blast from the past, I had completely forgotten that's why the name seemed familiar.