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Kagi already dodges the SEO bullet.
Disclaimer: I pay for Kagi. You should too!
There's a good chance not enough people are willing to pay for search and this never becomes a problem.
Disclaimer: happy paying customer.
Kagi is leagues better than now-Google. It is about on par, slightly worse than the Google of yore — not by their own fault, but because they operate in a much more professionalized, difficult, hostile web.
They didn't dodge the SEO bullet — nobody has aimed at them yet.
This isn’t totally true. They can dodge a lot of stuff, because optimisations target Google’s algorithms, not Kagis. And Google also has conflicting intrests on same cases to let them just be.
I have paid for long time as well. But this brings new ”attack vector”, which is important to consider.
> Ie user activity on embedded sites helps indicate interest in Kagi index updates.
Doesn’t this mean anyone? And once someone fakes user activity, that make it useless measure in the end.
No matter what weights and checks are put in place, some observers will notice how their rankings change and make appropriate modifications.
This isn't solved by Kagi's product, either. I'm a happy user and use it as my daily driver. That doesn't mean that, if it increases in popularity, the results will remain unskewed.
