The whole internet loves Kagi, a lovely paid search engine that can find things! 5 seconds later We regret to inform you the CEO is an unhinged narcissist who will harangue you in email

Attached: 4 images As many of you know, I posted recently about my experiences and outlook on Kagi, the paid search engine. It's gotten some positive press recently, ironically right after I made my blog post about why I no longer liked or trusted it. This blog post was called "Why I Lost Faith I...

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Seeing how successful Kagi is when run by someone who actively sets their own money on fire for no reason almost makes me want to try and start a search engine company. I mean I couldn't do it any worse right? And there is a market for it.
- Kagi basically admits they're just piggybacking off of Google, Bing, et al, so getting into the space shouldn't be a serious PITA.
  
  yall really are making me want to massively overextend and start that federated search engine project based on human-driven indexing and whichever APIs each instance wants to query and cache. yes, like a fancy web directory
  maybe this is a good idea for a FreeAssembly project once Philthy’s in a good state? it’s a better idea than starting a shitty Wikipedia clone at least
  
  (feels quite fucky to type the following without coming across as a naysayer; not quite the intended meaning, but.. I guess you'll see)
  it'd probably be cool if this could exist, but also there's a couple of extremely hard problems in going for it, along with a couple of (to my current knowledge) entirely unsolved ones
  one of the presently-unsolved things I know of is that we don't yet have anything like scalable performant homomorphic encryption so there's no way to do fully-private query operations on a dataset, which thus gives way to the operator snooping space combined with user privacy angles. there are some technical solutions to some aspects of this, and a number of social things that would apply too
  might be interesting either way
  definitely a hell of a big project.
  
  Personally: I'd love to, but I have a conflicting non-compete so I'd definitely have to quit my job first and I'm not ready for that level of adulting. The good news is that if I ever do quit I'll have a lot of relevant skills
  
  maybe this is something you're looking for idk https://github.com/StractOrg/stract they have their own index and their own crawler
  
  covered by 404media https://www.404media.co/this-guy-is-building-an-open-source-search-engine-in-real-time/
  
  Omg so much tech jargon in this comment
  
  welcome to TechTakes!
  no, welcome wasn’t the right word now was it
- It's very similar to the feeling you get when you read a very middle-quality novel, innit?
  
  I resemble that remark
- Well the article says they have 16 (half are only half time) employees working between at least 5 projects, so it looks pretty possible, and most of the smaller engines are made by one or two people

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