They do claim to use an independent Teclis index, but this cannot be where most of their non-news results come from as it is not a general index. From the infor

They do claim to use an independent Teclis index, but this cannot be where most of their non-news results come from as it is not a general index. From the information available on Teclis, it has a very limited index and currently is strictly purposed for the niche use of finding non-commercial content. Teclis itself doesn't even claim to be fully independent, and sources from the Marginalia non-commercial index. If they were relying on their own index, they wouldn't refer to Kagi as a client and reference the other sources with precedence. https://teclis.com/ https://teclis.com/