It’s not that I am involved in shady business, but I do look up strange things from time to time.
How do others feel about this?
(I feel like there is a need for a private, maybe even local, search?)
“Searches are anonymous and private to you. Kagi does not log and associate searches with an account.”
> Am I supposed to believe that if their backend crashes after a user query, that can’t tell what has been queried?
I'm sure they'll know the query. They just won't know which user made the query.
> Searches are anonymous and private to you. Kagi does not log and associate searches with an account.
They also double down on this in their FAQ: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/company/faqs.html#i-am-still-worr...
I find their reasoning solid and choose to believe them (for now).
I mean anyone can write anything into a privacy policy and who will enforce they are sticking to them really? Usually we only see what actually happens in the background when there is a breach.
For financial systems we have regular audits so rules like PCI DSS are enforced, but do we have these for search systems?
Dunno, but a "decent" chunk of my time went into vetting our privacy policy for my company because it is something we could be sued over.
So at least lawyers are taking it very seriously.
Thanks for the info nonetheless. I think I'll give it a shot and maybe don't look up how to get rid of bodies - for a friend. Oh, damn, did it again.
There needs to be a healthy decentralized, open source approach to search. If people can hope to train and infer with LLM's locally why not the relatively "low IQ" search index that doesnt even violate copyright? The two are increasingly facets of the same thing.
Btw you should try recoll for local search.
Open source business models are not the easiest but a team could easily fund things with corporate oriented customizations.
Maybe Kagi itself should try this path.
In any case the next phase of AI enabled computing will require some bold thinking and acting, but above all, having a moral compass.