they’ve just (as in yesterday, on Jan 5th) added a Lemmy/Kbin lens to their engine (meaning that it’s easier to search specifically the Threadiverse):
Kagi is popular on Lemmy and a lot of Lemmy users are using Kagi. We have released the first version of a Lemmy/Kbin search lens
I don’t really think they’ve been playing some kind of a long guerilla con of advertising here for half a year and then adding a feature that would make searching convenient for their supposed covert marketing department.
and if they did, the Brave decision is about to backfire on them.
thesmokingman@programming.dev 5 months ago
In fairness to Kagi, if you’re seeing a lot of it on Lemmy and Mastodon, that’s because nerds are gonna nerd. There’s a huge concentration of tech folks in those spaces and there’s a huge culture of prostelytization, “I know best so I must educate,” and “I just found this cool thing!” within the tech community. People remix the intros they got with their spin. Until the communities in these spaces significantly diversifies, you’ll see a ton of that. Kagi might be paying for some guerilla marketing; I chalk it up to tech oversharing.
In all fuck you to Kagi, Brandon Eich is the last person you want to attach your cart to for solid results. We should now expect explicitly paid results worse than Google that materially improve Eich, crypto bullshit through the roof, and a complete lack of privacy to Kagi who won’t share it so it’s totally cool guys.