How I Use Kagi

I always feel really grotty about evangelising for products, but I switched to Kagi about six months ago and it really is a better experience. In almost all cases, the search results are as good as or better than Google, and I don't have to scroll through an increasing number of misleading ads to see them. I'm a happy customer.

When I first switched, I would often click the button to run the search on google for queries that weren't immediately giving me what I wanted (rather than go through the next few pages of results), but invariably I wouldn't find it there either. I think that's what gave me confidence that Kagi's results were at least as trustworthy as anything else. (to compare, I did the same thing in my multiple abortive attempts to switch to DDG and it always came up wanting).

Re: How I Use Kagi

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Post by ajdude » Thu, Jul 17, 2025, 4:43 PM UTC

PokemonNoGo wrote: post #3

Do they still use Yandex? >I’ve been a happy Kagi user since early 2023 I was an unhappy Kagi user when I learnt it relied on Russian back ends fueling a war. Now I'm not a user anymore.

Do you have any links / sources for this?

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jul 17, 2025, 4:43 PM UTC

Chief_Searcha wrote: post #2

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Post by junon » Thu, Jul 17, 2025, 4:44 PM UTC

PokemonNoGo wrote: post #3

Do they still use Yandex? >I’ve been a happy Kagi user since early 2023 I was an unhappy Kagi user when I learnt it relied on Russian back ends fueling a war. Now I'm not a user anymore.

They have search results from Yandex among others, yes, and Yandex isn't really a Russian company anymore.

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Post by bangaladore » Thu, Jul 17, 2025, 4:44 PM UTC

ajdude wrote: post #5

PokemonNoGo wrote: post #3

Do they still use Yandex? >I’ve been a happy Kagi user since early 2023 I was an unhappy Kagi user when I learnt it relied on Russian back ends fueling a war. Now I'm not a user anymore.

Do you have any links / sources for this?

I think they are referring to this changelog item:

> Our image search became even better with the inclusion of two more sources: Yandex Image Search (widely recognized as one of best image search services) and Openverse (vast collection of openly licensed images). Kagi is doing the hard work so that you don't have to.

https://kagi.com/changelog#5340

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Post by threetonesun » Thu, Jul 17, 2025, 4:46 PM UTC

PokemonNoGo wrote: post #3

Do they still use Yandex? >I’ve been a happy Kagi user since early 2023 I was an unhappy Kagi user when I learnt it relied on Russian back ends fueling a war. Now I'm not a user anymore.

You're gonna have a hard time using anything right now if you want to avoid services run in a country not spending on a war somewhere.

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Post by J_McQuade » Thu, Jul 17, 2025, 4:47 PM UTC

PokemonNoGo wrote: post #3

Do they still use Yandex? >I’ve been a happy Kagi user since early 2023 I was an unhappy Kagi user when I learnt it relied on Russian back ends fueling a war. Now I'm not a user anymore.

Also, the company is based in a country that has 'fueled' more wars in my lifetime than any other country has in the last 100 years. Definitely avoid.