7mo ago

Is Kagi the newish paid search engine funding Russia via Yandex

I recently (as in just now) bought a month of the Kagi Search engine to give it a whirl. THEN I heard they use Yandex which is Russian and well... Russia and Ukraine. Any truth to this?

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They use a lot of sources to get the best results: their index, and then others. I doubt much goes to Yandex but they don’t specify.
Yes they use Yandex along with the others.
Personally I don't use them.
They also pay Brave for their results
- Lmao these losers are paying for brave search results? Just go to search.brave.com its free hahahaha
  /j
yandex is about 2% of our total cost, to put things into perspective
I encourage subscribers to check out this thread and weigh in.
They pull from several other search indexes, and they have awesome features. Infinitely more valuable than an overpriced coffee for $5/month.
I love the quick summarizer.
I only use Kagi when I can't find something on other search engines. It often delivers where others can't. But so far the free 100 searches have lasted me 3 months and I think will likely last me years at the rate I'm using them.
Yandex is actually a better search engine than google (& all this BS about Russian bias is lies) Use it & judge it yourselves, don't take my word for it (not that my word has any value😅)
- Like ~95% of the rest of the internet that uses cloud infrastructure.
  Google, AWS, or Azure
  What is your point?
  
  it's not like they are the only providers. There's plenty of other choice
Even if there was any truth to this, a good search engine remains unimpressed by world politics.

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