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I cancelled my Kagi account following the positions taken by the company on Yandex issue.

Did things change ? I'm not saying the opening of an HQ in Serbia is linked. It's obvious this is linked to the founder's origins and that's OK.

Just wondering if I should reconsider my subscription to this great product.

(Serbia's facing risks of petrol shortage because of Russia's war, just saw this in the news)



For interested readers, here is the CEO (Vlad) answer to the ties between Kagi and Yandex (November 2024): https://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integratio...


> The job of a search engine is to produce the most relevant search results, period.

Unclear how all the random side projects align with this goal tbh.


Or how using what amounts to a state-owned search engine - when that state is a corrupt, censorship-heavy authoritarian state dedicated to the conquer of their sovereign neighbor states - is helping toward "the best results". Outside of the "funding invaders" issue, of course it's results will be skewed.

Especially if he simultaneously claims it's hardly used and only represents 2% of costs. If it's so infrequently used, why so resistant to offering a toggle?




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