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Why is it bad if they're using other engines to produce results?
by thinkingtoilet 3mo ago
Why is it bad if they're using other engines to produce results?
- rpdillon 3mo agoI like paying to invest in a new sustainable ecosystem. Using SERP API doesn't feel like that to me. See Brave for a counterexample.
- Grombobulous 3mo agoMy pushback on this idea and your previous comment in this thread is that a search engine is a service being provided to me. I pay Kagi, they give me search results. It’s not an ecosystem. None of their competitors are all that much of an ecosystem, either. If Kagi goes out of business tomorrow it’s really not my problem, with the exception of the prorated balance of the subscription. The only thing that really matters is that running searches in Kagi is a better experience in Kagi than Google or Bing or DuckDuckGo or most of the rest. That’s what makes me pay for it. I don’t really need to know how the sausage is made (except for the privacy aspect).
- inigyou 3mo agoThis. We are all too worried about the future. Like today's "I won't use Codeberg because tomorrow they could ban all repositories that contain Chinese characters." Well if that happens then you move. We all die in the end anyway.
- evolve2k 3mo agoYou undervalue our collective momentum. The speed with which many of us respond when a tech company does something really stupid is a key reason that things are not even shitter.
- fsflover 3mo agoI guess you can't make such ecosystem before growing sufficiently large. And for that you need to rely on something for some time first.
- Hackbraten 3mo agoI think that ship has sailed [0]. If Microsoft hasn’t managed to build a meaningful search index after 17 years of sinking billions in it, there’s a good chance that no one ever will. [0]: https://blog.kagi.com/waiting-dawn-search https://blog.kagi.com/waiting-dawn-search (cf. section _The problem: A search monopoly_)
- mark_something 3mo agoIf engine A uses the results of engine B, and engine B uses the results of engine A, there is a problem :-).
- lostlogin 3mo agoIt is a bit weird that a ‘search engine’ is using other companies search results. They aren’t the only one doing this though.
- gonzalohm 3mo agoWhy reindex everything? You just need to show the relevant information
- windexh8er 3mo agoI wouldn't be surprised to hear that this was always the plan for Kagi. Google has been rather distracted and complacent in their, former, core business. If Kagi is bootstrapping their indexing to emerge on the other end of this as the next "good" search, then good on them. I'll continue to support them because it's a great experience.
- godelski 3mo agoThe search engine is a lot more than the index. And they have their own index