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In the FAQ, they mention they don’t have an index, they just collect the results from other search engines.
Uh oh. Where is that? We do have our own index, Uruky Site Search!
I went into settings, excluded every provider, and enabled "include uruky site search", but it still says "Providers used: Mojeek", and every other search I try shows no mention of the uruky index
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I see. To summarize, you believe all Russians are bad because a Russian person killed your friend and all Americans are good because no American people killed any of your friends?
Is it really that hard to believe people don't want to support a state that has brutally occupied half of Europe for 50 years and is right now murdering Ukrainians every day? Russia is waging a hybrid war against Europe (and the West in general), there's no way I'd give one of their biggest tech companies even a cent.
people don't want to support a state that has brutally occupied half of Europe
I'd be more than willing to subscribe and support the project BUT, I need to address the elephant in the room: The reason why I'm against Kagi is the fact that they use Yandex(be it only for images according to their own words) and I'm sure as hell refusing to give a single cent to them. So I guess my question is: sources?
What's wrong with Yandex? I think every possible criticism of Yandex I can think of could just as easily be leveled at Google or Bing.
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It's Russian. Indirectly you are supporting Putin when you use it. Those sanctions aren't for no reason.
Am I indirectly supporting Trump when I use DuckDuckGo?
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It's Russian. Indirectly you are supporting Putin when you use it. Those sanctions aren't for no reason.
Am I indirectly supporting Trump when I use DuckDuckGo?
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Yes, we boycott anyone who supports Putin’s regime.
Hate to break it to you, but not all Russians support Putin.
I am Russian and I do oppose Putin’s regime. My family is in Russia, though. If I send them money (which), and they pay for, say, groceries, which are taxed, some tiny part of my money will be used to fund the regime and the war. I am very disappointed but there is no way for me to just yank all my family and friends and relocate them to a less fucked-up jurisdiction.
Doing business with Yandex is a whole other beast. Kagi can choose to use a worse search engine API which doesn’t involve paying money to a Russian company. Are there some market forces at hand here? Maybe a lot of Russian expats pay for Kagi because it has good Russian-language results? I don’t know.
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> But is Yandex government owned?
It isn’t, but I really doubt it has no ties with it. It would be interesting to trace and see if Yandex Cloud’s international branch money gets back to its Russian counterpart, or if they are two separate things.
Google’s index is by far the largest, and my impression is that a search engine is hardly useful unless it includes Google’s results.