Per TFA, this money was mostly raised from Kagi's existing customers.
They aren't building a web crawler. Kagi is a search "client" (it is one way to build on a shoestring budget, alright), augmented by an in-house small-scale just-in-time crawler.
> From here, we take your query and use it to aggregate data from multiple other sources, including but not limited to Google, Bing, and Wikipedia, and other internal data sources in order to procure your search results.https://help.kagi.com/kagi/privacy/privacy-protection.html
I like Kagi's general vision for LLMs + Search. There's a real chance small competitors can compete with Google with clever use of LLMs' zero-shot summarization, categorization, intent recognition, and answering abilities.
Especially when google continues to be worse off year after year. Just search for my damn keywords, like you did 10 years ago, especially when I have already put quotes around them because you Re useless!
They aren't building a web crawler. Kagi is a search "client" (it is one way to build on a shoestring budget, alright), augmented by an in-house small-scale just-in-time crawler.
> From here, we take your query and use it to aggregate data from multiple other sources, including but not limited to Google, Bing, and Wikipedia, and other internal data sources in order to procure your search results. https://help.kagi.com/kagi/privacy/privacy-protection.html
> We also have our own non-commercial index (Teclis), news index (TinyGem), and an AI for instant answers. https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...
I like Kagi's general vision for LLMs + Search. There's a real chance small competitors can compete with Google with clever use of LLMs' zero-shot summarization, categorization, intent recognition, and answering abilities.