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points by stanislavb 2 days ago | 0 comments
Kagi is playing a smart game. They will catch the search traffic that Google is abandoning. Similar to what happened to RSS when Google Reader was shut down - a few other players caught a good amount users.
[–] wmchen 2 days ago
Pessimistically, I get the strong impression that AI is cannibalizing search traffic, not competing search engines. The delivery format overall is changing, even if power users prefer the traditional approach.
[–] sfRattan 2 days ago
For my use of Kagi, probably more three quarters of "my" searches are made by Kagi's assistant or a custom assistant I've made via their interface, as a result of the assistant formulating a response to one of my queries to it. Kagi search is so much better than Google, so the assistant ingests much better context (i.e. the results) before it answers. In that sense, Kagi is still picking up the search traffic Google and others are leaving on the table, but the relationship is healthier. I'm paying to use a search because of the quality and there are no ads to show, so the assistant doing the searches is just as beneficial for both parties (I get a more powerful tool and they get a happy subscriber) as human initiated searches.