Kagi, the company behind a paid, private search engine1 of the same name, has announced it's bringing its Webkit-based Orion web browser to Linux. In a
  • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
    2417·
    10 hours ago

    Okay, and? It’s a proprietary browser for a company sponsoring paid search using a Russian engine. I’m quite happy to avoid.

  • Zero@lemmy.caEnglish
    63·
    10 hours ago

    Any word on Windows? Despite the discourse around Kagi using Yandex, they did advise me that they are still building thier own indexes that are planned to eventually replace thirds party ones.

    I’m still not a huge fan of the overuse of AI, but I do think Kagi is on the right track in a lot of other areas.

    edit: I’m in the Linux community… Ignore the first sentence 😅

      • BossDj@lemm.ee
        7·
        8 hours ago

        Probably that engines are putting Ai in the forefront of searches lately

        • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
          21·
          8 hours ago

          Kagi doesn’t do that. It doesn’t even show you an AI response unless you specifically request it.

    • BossDj@lemm.ee
      11·
      8 hours ago

      So, duckduckgo also uses Yandex, right? I know Bing as their premier, but all these search engines use more than one source. I haven’t been able to see where any of them provide their entire list of sources. DDG and Kagi both previously listed Yandex and have since quietly disappeared their mention from their informational pages