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lori's blog is a personal blog at d-shoot.net about web and culture. Since 2024, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “I Lost Faith in Kagi”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (13) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog mainly for its long critique of the Kagi search engine, covering privacy claims, GDPR compliance, how customers are treated, and an email exchange with Kagi's CEO.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 13 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- I Lost Faith in Kagi9 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2024-04-12
What Hacker News says?
Posting for the unaware, without commentary on the content - just an FYI because it's something that matters to me, at least: https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html
Comment linking /kagi.html
on “Try Switching to Kagi”Submitted I Lost Faith in Kagi as a story · 695 points
HN discussion^ The parent link leads to an email chain between the CEO and the blogger in which the blogger says "go away I do not want to talk to you" several times and receives a chain of emails back. Text version: https://d-shoot.net/files/kagiemails.txt Read them yourself, but to me they look like the emails of a persistent salesman. They were remarkable only in that they provide more excuses than concrete responses.
Comment linking /files/kagiemails.txt
on “I Lost Faith in Kagi”Submitted Cohost's Financials – A Retrospective as a story · 4 points
HN discussionMeh, my trust in Kagi is kinda shot, given that they seem to have forgotten that sales tax existed[0]. [0]: https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html
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on “Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo”After having been a paid subscriber for a number of months, I have to say that it still wasn't cutting it. I still ended up falling back to google all the time. Plus, https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html
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on “US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case”Maybe you shouold read this: https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40011314 Whip up a SearXNG instance or use one instead.
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on “I don't want to spend my one precious life dealing with Google's AI search”Keep in mind that this guy and Kagi themselves can't be trusted as proof by this piece: https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40011314
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on “I don't want to spend my one precious life dealing with Google's AI search”I fear that Kagi is going to suffer the same fate as Neeva did: "In a way, the brief flicker of Neeva’s existence tells everything you need to know about the last 20 years of search-engine supremacy. Building a search engine is hard. Building one better than Google is even harder. But if you want to beat Google, a better search engine is only the very beginning. And it only gets harder from there." [1] [1] https://w…
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on “Google just updated its algorithm. The Internet will never be the same”The image looks like it's from this post [1]. Long story short, this appears to be a case of a CEO needing to restrain themselves from saying (or typing) everything that comes to mind when faced with a combative user who clearly isn't trying to understand something or bring anything to the table. At the end of the day, what you care about when it comes to privacy in search are your search records. They say--in a way…
Comment linking /kagi.html
on “Why pay for a search engine”I'm calling marketing fluff here, given that its founder seems to hold a skewed model of kagis power in regard to collecting personal information altogether: "personal information is what you can be identified with as an individual. no information you submit to kagi is personal information except if you use your real email address to register"[0] [0]: https://d-shoot.net/img/kagi/weregood3.png
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on “Why pay for a search engine”I’ve considered using kagi before, but I think this blog post finally convinced me not too: https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html The quick summary is that they aren’t really privacy focused at all, don’t comply with GDPR, and generally seem ok misleading their customers. The lack-of-privacy doesn’t bother me itself, but misleading customers really troubles me. Why would I trust them with X when I know they’ve lied with Y?
Comment linking /kagi.html
on “Why pay for a search engine”I’m sure Kagi knew what it was doing when diversifying into the T-shirt business. https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html
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on “Google begins enforcement of site reputation abuse policy”Speaking of which, they're just no better. https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html There's a postmortem update at the end of this post. Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40011314
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on “The Deterioration of Google”Kagi is not a pro privacy company except inasmuch as they currently consider privacy to be profitable. They are a would-be AI company who discovered paid search was a viable way to self-fund. If you ask them what guarantees you have that they won't someday decide to sell your search history, their response will be "well, it doesn't make financial sense for us to do so. Now drop it" and ban you. Here's a blog post so…
Comment linking /kagi.html
on “Orion Browser by Kagi”
