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What's wrong with Yandex? I think every possible criticism of Yandex I can think of could just as easily be leveled at Google or Bing.
by specproc 4mo ago
What's wrong with Yandex? I think every possible criticism of Yandex I can think of could just as easily be leveled at Google or Bing.
- _diyar 4mo agobut surely you realize that people going to kagi also don’t like google or bing.
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- carlosjobim 4mo agoThere's little future in catering to customers who come to you only because they hate Google. They will soon find a reason to hate you and fill up your support forums and Discord with complaints. After all, they are spending the gigantic amount of $10 per month on your service, and have a right to influence the company. With Uruky, these customers can now move on instead, and the lower price will serve as another reason. And then they also don't have to worry anymore that their accountant is going to call at 3AM and demand that they "justify" the gigantic subscription cost. And Kagi can focus on the only real selling point they have: Search results quality. Which is where their future lies and what most potential customers are looking to pay for. Not being anti-Google.
- __jonas 4mo agoI think the point was that kagi uses google and bing as it’s search providers, besides others like yandex
- NicuCalcea 4mo agoI also don't use Kagi because of Yandex, and my reason is that it's a Russian company, owned by people close to the Russian government.
- specproc 4mo agoI loathe both Russian and American governments, what's a boy to do?
- NicuCalcea 4mo agoThat is a tough position, I don't have a definitive answer. Perhaps you could look at supporting non-US and non-Russian companies building their own search indexes? Not sure what the state of Ecosia and Qwant's European Search Perspective is these days, but that's an option.
- TiredOfLife 4mo agoMurder and jaywalking.
- graemep 4mo agoKagi seems unfairly picked on here. Lots of people do business with Russia. Multiple EU countries import gas from Russia which, the UK just dropped sanctions on Russian oil, lots of countries do not have sanctions on Russia at all so buying things from those countries might involve money ending up going to Russia. On the other hand Kagi is an American company so is at the very least abiding by US sanctions.
- NicuCalcea 4mo agoI'm not claiming it's an infallible system and that no single cent of my money goes to Russia. I just do what's within my powers based on the information I have.
- graemep 4mo agoYou cannot have an infallible system, but my point is that Kagi keeps getting highlighted, but no-one else seems to.
- NicuCalcea 4mo ago