Comment on Kagi silently removed all references to Google's index from their website

• boatswain@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The issue is that they’re using it but no longer being explicit about that use.

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  • capital@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Our search results also include anonymized API calls to all major search result providers worldwide…

    Google search is the 800 lb gorilla in this space. When I read that, there’s no doubt in my mind that it includes Google.

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    • boatswain@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sure but given that their previous language explicitly mentions Google why remove that unless they’re trying to make people think that maybe they didn’t use Google. It’s a shady change, from a company whose CEO is already doing somewhat unhinged things.

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      • capital@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Anyone who reads that and doesn’t think google is probably the type who thought incognito mode meant google wasn’t tracking you anymore.

        And what unhinged things are you referring to?

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      • tranceFusion@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I don’t think they tried to hide that they were using Google, but rather than they are using Brave, because many people were upset about that. They probably just decided to stop naming specific indexes.

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  • d13@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I wonder if they are preparing to stop using it. That could be a benign reason for the change in wording.

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