Google is not blocked in the USA.

Interesting. I'm in the US and use Kagi everyday.

I read it more as "company having morals". Not many US companies have "morals".

Google doesn't, Kagi seems to (hopefully). I meant this more as a jab at countries willing to block Google, as they're generally dictatorships / authoritarian in nature. Oh the irony, as an american saying this in 2026....

They do, but do they align with your own?

It’s difficult, because Kagi results are so good and the alternatives are often business that behave worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42349797

I've heard Yandex results are good, and they often avoid Google bias. I have no moral problem with Kagi integrating results from Yandex and Google.

The yandex thing seems to be an argument made in bad faith at this point.

So you use Google. Kagi still rely on Googles index.

there is no where in the article where they mention this (not even an * saying what they exclude).

they present numbers and say "world" like whole countries and groups of people don't matter. very arrogant.

Google and Facebook would be very happy to operate in China, but they're too closely tied to the US intelligence apparatus to agree to the terms that China requires.

For years Facebook wanted to get into Chinese market, so much that Zuckerberg asked Xi Jinping to name his child: https://www.the-independent.com/news/people/china-s-presiden...

No I didn't make this up.

And there was reporting like this: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/zuckerberg-s-meta-was-w...

Although a few years they seemed to completely abandon the effort and started to criticize China, although I can't find the article.

You'll be amazed at how quickly Zuckerberg "adapts" to things. Which is why I never trust a single word that comes out of his mouth.