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[–] palordrolap@kbin.run -1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Kagi is a search aggregator, so those results are from Google.

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Kagi is a search engine. They do their own indexing, and they aggregate search results.

It's right in their docs.

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html

[–] palordrolap@kbin.run 2 points 4 months ago

I guess an assumption that no-one would do both blinded me to that fact.

[–] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You sure you’re not thinking of searxng?

[–] palordrolap@kbin.run 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No, but SearX does similar things. I've been learning about Kagi recently, and as far as I can tell, they don't index pages on their own, they just use APIs provided by the real search engines.

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They do both. Which is how they're able to provide some of the more unique filters and lenses. They maintain their own indexes.

This is reasonably documented: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html