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I don't use or trust Kagi but based on what I know about them from my research, this isn't true and sounds like thinly veiled racism because the founder is Russian.
Edit: I was corrected. The founder is Serbian. My apologies.
> thinly veiled racism because the founder is Russian
thanks for the laugh. As far as yandex goes, you are on the right track though: my grandad used to say, "If a russian ever says good morning to you, you have learned two things: it's not good and it's not morning". For the record, the founder is Serbian, As for the claim, sure, they aren't really hiding it: https://kagi.com/changelog#5340
so you're saying because they integrate other services to improve their search, that makes them an 'alternative UI' for that integration?
Fascinating perspective, thanks!
The founder isn't Russian: https://vladimir.prelovac.com/
That's my fault. Thanks for the correction. I edited my post.
I don't have an opinion either way, but they were perhaps referring to the announcement that they are integrating yandex as a source for images. I didn't follow it all closely, but there was some controversy about it.
Even if that were true, it wouldn't mean that Yandex would have the ability to tie queries to accounts.
citation needed?
Do you have any evidence of this?
This is just wrong. Kagi has its own index and uses many other indexes to augment theirs if theirs do not provide enough coverage for a search.
> "In their most recent blog post, Kagi announced the integration of Yandex for image search—a company based in Russia. During a discussion, Vlad (Kagi’s founder) stated, “We do not discriminate based on current geopolitical issues.”
EDIT: this is what I found during a search. I did not claim they are fully backed by yandex.
That's not the same thing as being "an alternative UI for Yandex" - that's a partnership for one subset of the overall functionality.
More context https://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integratio...
Apparently they have been using yandex for 5 years as one of the search backends.