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A three month review of kagi search and the orion web browser (2024)
There's a new web search in town! I spent the start of 2024 kicking the tires on Kagi's paid search and their Orion web browser.
While drafting this blog post, Google themselves admitted they need to make some significant changes to their search results to filter out AI generated spam and SEO reputation laundering. The rationale behind our choice was purely based on technological merits and business strategy, including the quality and cost-effectiveness of the service, as well as a critical need for redundancy and diversification in our data sources. It is very hard for a small startup with many orders of magnitude less resources to crawl/index/rank the entire web and for it to be so good that people would pay for....Choosing to focus on our mission to provide the best search results in the world is the only practical position we can have.
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