While they’re a very, very, very, very small search engine, it looks like someone requested a Lemmy search lens and was finally implemented today.
While they’re a very, very, very, very small search engine, it looks like someone requested a Lemmy search lens and was finally implemented today.
Some interesting details about Kagi: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/111707573907442638
tl;dr might not be such a good idea to use.
This is yet another case of the Fediverse blowing something out of proportions. This shouldn’t surprise anyone using Kagi if they were paying attention to the sources they were using to begin with.
That said, I still use Kagi and this doesn’t impact my view of them in the slightest.
Yes, Eich is a very toxic character who should be avoided for his anti-LGBTQ views, but Brave is far from the most controversial data source they could be utilizing.
Yandex has (had?) a known CSAM issue.
Yelp manipulates businesses about their reviews, which can help kill off small businesses.
Mapbox was engaging in union-busting tactics.
Google continues entrenching themselves in a lot of ways that violate privacy and doing who-knows-what with our information.
Choosing to use APIs from Brave seems so inconsequential by comparison.
You completely missed the main point: if the Kagi response would have been what you wrote I would agree, but they replied with something much worse, and that’s solely on them.
Did you actually read their response? It wasn’t bad at all. As a customer, this is a mountain out of a molehill.
What’s he to stay? Promise to vigorously look at the ethics of every executive at every data source going forward? That’s a losing proposition. At least the person isn’t bullshitting around pretending to cater to politics then lie about it.
I can’t think of any data source that would be 100.0% pure, especially once you add in the executives.
The Fediverse is, yet again, being unreasonable here.
What are you using instead?
https://docs.searxng.org/