I'm not sure that's actually true for the userbase that Kagi is targeting. I think they are mostly interested in curated, original content, mostly text, not der

I'm not sure that's actually true for the userbase that Kagi is targeting. I think they are mostly interested in curated, original content, mostly text, not derivative slop, often in video form. Locating that stuff for indexing might not get easier, but I suspect the index size required for that group isn't growing as fast as it did in the past.