https://blog.kagi.com/celebrating-20k

The process from here involves setting up a business entity in Germany, so we can import the t-shirts, store them in a warehouse, connect inventory logistics and ship them all over the world. This includes building a website and connecting it to a back-end database. So, we basically ended up owning a merch production operation end-to-end, just so that we could ensure premium quality of these t-shirts!

like… why

You specifically stated that “They deleted the fact that they are a metasearch engine”.

I specifically didn’t.

The page you linked clearly explains that they use other search engine sources

it doesn’t specify which ones, though.

Our search results also include anonymized API calls to:

• all major search result providers worldwide, [such as?]
• specialized search engines like Marginalia,
• and sources of vertical information such as Wolfram Alpha, Apple, Wikipedia, Open Meteo, Yelp, TripAdvisor, and other APIs

domain blocking

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/android/addon/ublacklist/

custom bangs

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/android/addon/yang-addon/

they are fairly upfront about honestly.

as long as you don’t really want to know which search engines they use https://kagifeedback.org/d/5185-more-detailed-information-about-search-sources

SearXNG generates a URL that contains all the preferences you’ve set, so it’s a matter of copying it and setting it as a default search engine on another device.

even being that expensive, they’re not breaking even

huh, I guess starting their own T-shirt business wasn’t that great of a move after all

it has been for a few years already.

which term you believe is that? https://loops.video/legal/terms-of-service

they got very defensive about disclosing their search sources ever since the Brave thing, lol https://kagifeedback.org/d/5185-more-detailed-information-about-search-sources

https://thenib.com/im-a-luddite/

yes, I’m well aware. I’m jokingly referring to more than one hundred journalists that were mentioned in the title of the article.

more than 100 journalists: Bluesky, gotcha

I use the one from hostux.net, it’s quite easy to figure out what “login”, “password” and “remember me for 30 days” are in French.

https://freshrss.org/cloud-providers.html

design consistent with the Magic Mouse

Is it all happening on my phone or in the cloud?

disable internet access and see what works and what doesn’t

direct, non-AMP link https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr431lr72jo

remember when it was called “surfing the internet”, implying a fun activity?

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/09/04/dont-use-ai-to-summarize-documents-its-worse-than-humans-in-every-way/