My results got so much worse since they started using the brave API for search results I had to cancel. Was a great product but I am back on self hosted search.
They use brave API?
Kagi search reached 20k paying members
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#32I signed up a month ago and this is the first time something “not Google” has stuck for me. The results are solid, the interface is clean, and it feels good supporting an ad free product.
I wish them their best with platform growth.
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#33Why is their logo the letter g instead of k? Have they considered the risk of a trademark violation lawsuit from their competitor, Google? As one of the 20K paying members, I feel embarrassed that I hadn't noticed this until now. Because this article presented the idea of wearing a Kagi T-Shirt, I suddenly started to care about what the logo looked like. Also, yes, I am excited to rep Kagi search.
Not only a g, but one that looks somewhat similar to the old Google g logo: https://theconversation.com/yes-google-has-a-new-logo-but-wh...
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#34My results got so much worse since they started using the brave API for search results I had to cancel. Was a great product but I am back on self hosted search.
They use brave API?
Yes. There has been some debate on that point:
https://kagifeedback.org/d/2808-reconsider-your-partnership-...
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#35My results got so much worse since they started using the brave API for search results I had to cancel. Was a great product but I am back on self hosted search.
They use brave API?
Seems like at least partially
https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...
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#36This news makes me so happy! With the trend that the tech industry seems to be taking towards enshitification (I might be quite cynical...) Kagi proves that is possible to make profitable business differently! Congrats!!
Kagi is not profitable.
Back in 2022 they had this blog post on their economics: https://blog.kagi.com/status-update-first-three-months#finan...
Their target was to break even around 25K paying customers. Would be interesting to hear if that is still the goal and where they currently stand but TFA doesn’t cover that topic.
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#37Kagi has been good apart from weather.
"LA weather" gets you to Louisiana, "SF weather" gets you to Santa Fe. Californians in shambles.
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#38As a Kagi customer, I hope their choice to allocate nearly a third of their investor-raised funds to produce and freely distribute 20,000 t-shirts doesn’t lead to their demise.
My duckduckgo t-shirt has converted a lot of people over the last 13 years, but if it doesn't have the name that seems like a big miss!
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#39As a Kagi customer, I hope their choice to allocate nearly a third of their investor-raised funds to produce and freely distribute 20,000 t-shirts doesn’t lead to their demise.
I'm no bean counter, but that would have been a huge no from me.
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#40My results got so much worse since they started using the brave API for search results I had to cancel. Was a great product but I am back on self hosted search.
As a pretty new subscriber, can you tell me a bit more about this? Using bing under the hood is part of what eventually made me leave DDG. And I'm not particularly excited about using brave services.
When what this change made and what does it do?
What's your self-hosted choice of the moment?