Kagi

And so the ...

You really need to be careful about, like when you're searching, are you men- are you trying to search for information that comes from people and their experiences and what their expertise or, you know, what they have learned about things? Or is it just a glossed over general idea that's coming from AI? Those are two very, very different things, but it feels like they're the same until you start really digging in and doing, like, searches and remembering what search used to look like, how it does still look on Kagi, which I've re- recommended in the past-

Mm-hmm

... versus this AI whatever kind of stuff is coming out.

Mm-hmm.

And somebody pointed me to this Kagi search, K-A-G-I search engine, which is all about, like, anonymity, but they've got a thing called Kagi, uh, Small Web, where they're actually keeping a list of all of the human content create, uh, human content created, you know?

Hmm.

And then so they can like highlight it in their engine as- And apparently I don't even qualify because I have more than 100,000 subscribers on my YouTube, but we qualify on this channel certainly.

Let's dive deep.

So I use a search engine called Kagi.

It's a paid search engine.

Let's see if it has my search engine.

Exa is one of them.

Brave, Tavoli, Firecrawl, Jina, Kagi, Linkup, Parallel, Perplexity Sonar, SERP API, SERPer, U.com, plus keyless options like DuckDuckGo, GDelt, and Hacker News.

So the tool that's supposed to help you avoid commercial search APIs.

Ships with adapters for 11 of them.

I know.

After we recorded that episode and right before we put out the single for that segment of Internet Explorer where we talked about Orion, Kagi announces that Linux and Windows development of Orion ceased to exist.

Done.

It is over.

It's got to be fully cross-platform.

If I can't use the same browser on every operating system I use, it's just kind of dead in the water for me.

And I'm sad to say, sad to say, because I had such high hopes for Orion because I like Kagi.

I like the company.

It will stay a macOS-only thing.

The team at Kagi says that they're just not big enough to handle that workload, and using WebKit instead of Chromium also means it is a lot more work than just building a Chrome clone.

Overall, they cannot justify expending that much effort on a cross-platform browser.

They're still fully open sourcing the code base, they say, and they will gift it to the community, which is pretty nice.

It is here for people who want to pick it up, to fork it, or evolve it as it is.

Same goes for the Windows version.

It will not be maintained by Kagi specifically, but it will still be open sourced as well.

The macOS version... stays, it will stay under their control, that's the one they're focusing their efforts on, they already distributed it and they already made some money with it.