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Re:Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google ... by xnx on Monday May 25, 2026 @10:47AM (#48267499)
> We're actively working on building our own indexes

Lip service. You'll have some token index of Wikipedia or something so you can say your results are "a blend of our own index and other sources".

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Re:Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google ... by freehorse on Monday May 25, 2026 @12:32PM (#48268735)
Wikipedia is prob in "other sources", as they actually say they have a direct license for it.

https://blog.kagi.com/waiting-dawn-search#:~:text=Wikipedia,...

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Re:Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google ... by account42 on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @05:02AM (#48291571)
Lol everyone has a direct license for Wikipedia.
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Re:Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google ... by nobodywasishere on Monday May 25, 2026 @03:18PM (#48270560)
It's funny you say that as we just switched the Wikipedia widget over to our own internal index. We don't intend to stop there either.
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