Post #2075434

2026-05-01 23:40 UTC

Is anyone paying for #kagi_search or using the #orionbrowser they&#39;re making? What do you think? I am thinking of trying their 100 search trial, but interested in how paying customers feel about it? I am a usually a #ddg user and have mostly weened myself off of Google. Does kagi have their own crawler? If not where are their results coming from? #search #paidsearch #privacy #freedomisntfree

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@theeclecticdyslexic@mstdn.social 2026-05-01 23:59

@gnuplusmatt@fosstodon.org I haven't been using kagi, but according to their help docs... https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html they have their own index, and they also do anonymised calls to other indexes and mix in those results. I have been using #ecosia for ages, and I kind of keep forgetting there are other things out there, because it keeps working just fine for me. I very rarely can't find stuff, but maybe I don't look for stuff that is hard to find?

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@xirrin@fosstodon.org 2026-05-02 13:50

@gnuplusmatt@fosstodon.org I’ve been paying for Kagi for several years now and very pleased with it. I don’t use their browser.

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@mavu@mastodon.social 2026-05-02 14:30

@gnuplusmatt@fosstodon.org when other search engines fail me (which is often) i use their 100 free searches. Its getting to the point where i consider more and more to pay them.

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