I Lost Faith in Kagi
If someone stood in a public square shouting falsehoods about you and people gathered around to listen, you'd want to defend yourself too. The CEO could have written a public post about this blogger's personal attacks, but instead he tried to address them privately; the blogger pulled a 5th grader move and basically put his fingers in his ears and started singing "lalalalaala I can't hear you lalalalalaa".
For example, the blogger was complaining that Kagi uses too much of AI tools. CEO responded with blog post which announced one AI tool being deployed, confirmed that they are going to keep working on AI, and announced upcoming features.
When blogger complained "Kagi stretches itself way too thin", CEO said "we have to do it"
Re taxes, CEO confirmed that they were not paying taxes, etc..
The best part was how blogger said: "LOL CEO does not understand PII, andd says emails are not PII because one can enter throwaway email" and CEO replied by restating the same thing.
My advice for anyone who runs a company (or may): make an active effort to learn about (healthy) human interactions, as well as how to figuratively take one on the chin. Like much of life, you can't choose how you'll feel about circumstances you find yourself in, but you absolutely can consciously decide how you'll respond.
But I'm still hoping they become sustainable and make it. I like using it and really do get great value from it.
Sounds pretty reasonable if you ask me. Especially considering that they are profitable.
Btw. the AI built-in to Kagi is imo excellent. I frequently suffix my query with a question mark to trigger their AI responder (it responds based on the content of a few top results, with citations), and the results are almost always great, and spare me the need to open each of the sites individually and look through them.
Using your opponent’s gender as an argument shows that you truly don’t have any actual arguments.
PS I wonder why the original blog post was flagged here on HN. It was also very enlightening.