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Remember when we paid for Kagi because it was "search"? I was basically an unpaid sponsor of them for the last year or so, but damn this constant pipeline of new shiny stuff is getting on my nerves. How can a company focus on building a good search engine with a good index and algo if they are also developing a translator, an LLM assistant and now a damn news app? Please, Vlad, just build different companies and stop piping my money to these other offerings I didn't ask for

Who offers a better search engine?

Having to use Google for translation services sucks, and I use the Assistant everyday. I hope Kagi keeps building more stuff with my money.

No one from what I can tell, that's why I still pay and give a damn. But they are missing a lot of desired features:

Financial: can't pay with Monero or cash, can't just buy Privacy Pass tokens instead of generating them from my account. Usability: can't access other features than Search with Privacy Pass, looking for a location doesn't pop a Maps widget, missing useful/cool search widgets from google and ddg (coinflip, rng, minigames, weather), bad Tor Browser integration (requires installing an add-on), bad/missing Mastodon search

But resources are being funneled towards replacing Google the company/stack instead of Google the search engine/app, so it begs the question if search is still really the top priority or not

My philosophy in life is that if nobody else does it better, then I'm not going to complain about the people who are doing something.

Would I prefer they do only the search engine? Sure, but until anybody else makes something equivalent, I'm not going to complain.

Same for Apple. Are they wasting time and money on things which doesn't make sense? Sure, but in the past 20 years no other of their billion dollar competitors have even tried to make a decent laptop.

Different strokes, I guess. I just think search is still not there as a full Google replacement and a lot of nice-to-haves are being put on the backburner (maybe forever) for more and more features unrelated to search (I wrote out a few of those in another reply)

You forgot browser and email. Have some faith, young padavan.