This sounds correct to me. Cory Doctorow wrote explicitly about how Kagi uses Google's own index, but just presents the results in a more useful way, which vali

This sounds correct to me. Cory Doctorow wrote explicitly about how Kagi uses Google's own index, but just presents the results in a more useful way, which validates everything that you're saying. > In other words: Kagi is a heavily customized, anonymized front-end to Google. > The implications of this are stunning. It means that Google's enshittified search-results are a choice. Those ad-strewn, sub-Altavista, spam-drowned search pages are a feature, not a bug. Google prefers those results to Kagi, because Google makes more money out of shit than they would out of delivering a good product https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/04/teach-me-how-to-shruggie/#kagi https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/04/teach-me-how-to-shruggie/...