Kagi raises $670k
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Kagi raises $670k
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Re: Kagi raises $670k
#2Ever since they upped the search limit (before it's pay per search), I've been a happy camper.
On the other hand, it did teach me the true cost of searches, and I use a lot more !bangs now, like !mdn or !archwiki (although the search powering both of these are probably funded by donations)
Re: Kagi raises $670k
#3The recent price reductions [0] were fantastic. But investors always smells fishy to me. Granted I don’t understand much of it, so my nose might be off.
Re: Kagi raises $670k
#4That's great news. I don't particularly care about the search engine, for me, it's about the browser. Orion is really great, I hope they don't stuff it up!
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#5Is $670K adequate sum to he raised through such financing round? I get used to multi-million numbers in startup announcements.
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#6"Kagi is building a novel ad-free, paid search engine and a powerful web browser as a part of our mission to humanize the web."
With 670K?
Cuil went through about $30 million to develop a standalone search engine. And that was fifteen years ago, when search was simpler.
There may be a market for a search engine company that profitably runs a low-cost operation with very few ads and makes real efforts to keep out spam. Everybody is fed up with Google and Bing. There's a great opportunity here to disrupt the industry and destroy a trillion dollars in market cap.
But not for $670K.
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#7I can't seem to tell from the website.
But are they depending on results from Google, Bing etc. or are they crawling the web themselves.
Re: Kagi raises $670k
#8Ever since they upped the search limit (before it's pay per search), I've been a happy camper. On the other hand, it did teach me the true cost of searches, and I use a lot more !bangs now, like !mdn or !archwiki (although the search powering both of these are probably funded by donations)
So it basically supports the same bangs as DDG? Couldn't find it in their feature list. Do bangs count as a search?
Re: Kagi raises $670k
#9I can't seem to tell from the website. But are they depending on results from Google, Bing etc. or are they crawling the web themselves.
Yes, they use other search engines. Check their FAQ for details https://kagi.com/faq#Where-are-your-results-coming-from
Re: Kagi raises $670k
#10Ever since they upped the search limit (before it's pay per search), I've been a happy camper. On the other hand, it did teach me the true cost of searches, and I use a lot more !bangs now, like !mdn or !archwiki (although the search powering both of these are probably funded by donations)
So it basically supports the same bangs as DDG? Couldn't find it in their feature list. Do bangs count as a search?
Bangs don't count towards the Kagi searches.