Kagi pulls data from a bunch of different sources - including Google - but as far as I know, Bing isn't one of them. Duckduckgo like you said is 90+% Bing, without some of the tracking-related results.
But even if Kagi were pulling mostly from Bing - which is fine - the experience I've had is way different.
When I search Bing or DDG, the results I get are roughly the same (some more promoted crap with Bing, even with adblock; but otherwise really similar). And those results are.....ok. Sometimes they're better than Google's default results, sometimes not. They're usually not as good as Google's searches in "verbatim" mode, which is more like Old Google.
But the search results I get with kagi seem to be generally as good as Google+verbatim mode, or better (sometimes much better). It's generally the best results every time, and without ad blockers, or enabling certain modes, or whatever. And I've gone back and compared against other search engines a bunch just to compare and try to see if Kagi was really worth it.
Plus, the ability to easily set exclude sites, or search contexts, or a bunch of other stuff is super nice. I don't use them every day but when I use them they can be amazing.
I thought he said he'd never do it again? And this is the first I've heard of him being back in (but I haven't been following that closely). When'd he flip flop (or am I wrong)?
Can you really not imagine a way that they'd ship a feature like that - maybe, disabled permanently with a corporate policy - where this wouldn't be a problem? Presumably they'd work with governments and corporations on something palatable, like they usually do.
I mean, this current feature isn't something that most governments really wouldn't want their users using either. Or the existing "secure DNS" feature, etc.
Edit: Or the root certificates they already add on top of what the OS provides and that the user can control.
The fact that they have some history doesn't mean they're even close to being a leader at the moment, which I think was the original point. Having done very little since the Prius leaves them towards the bottom.
Considering a lot of other claims and all the feet dragging and other things people have mentioned I also will believe it when I see it and not before.
But I'm with you that it could happen, and I hope it does.
In 2015 it was also fast enough to do pretty decent big screen games rendered locally, too. I mean, like other person pointed out, its internals were powerful enough to have been (heavily) used for the Switch which hundreds of millions of people are still having fun with.
That was one of the reasons several people I know bought it.
That optional feature might be banned, it likely would be easily disabled (I.e. not disablable) by corporate policy.
Having enough people to opt into it to be profitable would make it worth it. You may be underestimating the # of people who wouldn't care if it was packaged well.
They ship the browser, which on at least many OSes has the certificate store. And Android. They can ship whatever they want.
People fall for all kinds of shit for reasonableish-soubdubg security reasons. Lots of people would have said they didn't believe people would go for this either.
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Even if she perjured her ass off I don't have any confidence anything would come from it.