Kagi seems to fully satisfy “provides a competitor to Big Tech” as well as any non-big tech competitor can be expected to (actively and consistently growing, good product, etc).
I do not believe they are open source, but they certainly seem less censorious.
I would not personally consider this a reasonable use of money or time.
Kagi seems to fully satisfy “provides a competitor to Big Tech” as well as any non-big tech competitor can be expected to (actively and consistently growing, good product, etc).
I do not believe they are open source, but they certainly seem less censorious.
I would not personally consider this a reasonable use of money or time.
Open source is a requirement for me, as I want to:
search datasets that a big company would legally not be allowed to be search, such as documents leaked by whistleblowers
search on an airgapped machine—so the whole world doesn’t get to know what a team of political dissidents is searching for, for example
Fair