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Is Kagi the newish paid search engine funding Russia via Yandex (self.technology)
submitted 2 weeks ago by phillycodehound to c/technology
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I recently (as in just now) bought a month of the Kagi Search engine to give it a whirl. THEN I heard they use Yandex which is Russian and well... Russia and Ukraine. Any truth to this?

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[–] teotwaki 36 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm someone who builds cloud infrastructure for a living. I only touch AWS (Amazon), but the same applies to Azure (Microsoft) and GCP (Google).

Kagi is private. Saying that they "rely" on Google because they use GCP is akin to saying that the US Army relies on General Motors because they use Hummers. It's just a provider. They're renting virtual machines, compute power, storage, and network bandwidth nothing more. You can use GCP/Azure/AWS without your data ever being visible by GCP/Azure/AWS. It's not because you use GCP that you have to use AdSense/Analytics/Fonts, etc. They are completely separate.

Politicians would have a field day with all the cloud providers if using one thing forced you to use everything.