The actual context, which I think frames it rather well:
> The job of a search engine is to produce the most relevant search results, period. Kagi excels at this precisely because we remain unimpressed by world politics. The moment 'politics' becomes a factor in search results is the moment I stop working on a search engine.
Yandex represents about 2% of our total costs and is only one of dozens of sources we use. To put this in perspective: removing any single source would degrade search quality for all users while having minimal economic impact on any particular region.
We set out to fix search, not the world. A truly useful search engine must be impartial - the same way Wikipedia strives for neutrality, or how a library doesn't curate books based on current political winds. Users deserve access to the best possible information, not information filtered through our political lens.
GoatInGrey|5 days ago
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baggachipz|5 days ago
> The job of a search engine is to produce the most relevant search results, period. Kagi excels at this precisely because we remain unimpressed by world politics. The moment 'politics' becomes a factor in search results is the moment I stop working on a search engine.
Yandex represents about 2% of our total costs and is only one of dozens of sources we use. To put this in perspective: removing any single source would degrade search quality for all users while having minimal economic impact on any particular region.
We set out to fix search, not the world. A truly useful search engine must be impartial - the same way Wikipedia strives for neutrality, or how a library doesn't curate books based on current political winds. Users deserve access to the best possible information, not information filtered through our political lens.
PufPufPuf|5 days ago