cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14100831
"No, seriously. All those things Google couldn’t find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and ov
Kagi uses Google’s search engine?? I didn’t know that, I thought they’d created their own search engine. If Google blocks Searx, why don’t they block Kagi?
I suspect most of kagi’s subscription money actually went to google’s pocket. Google charges a lot of money to access their search api, about $5/1000 queries.
Kagi pays Google for API access. They also query other sources of data as well as their own index.
https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html#external