So, one meta-layer of discussion up: do we think the recent surge of Kagi discussion on HN is indicative of a real wave?

Or is “picking a different search engine” gonna be something only 1% of users ever do again?

I honestly think that even if Kagi does remain pretty niche (<1% of internet searches, for a ballpark), that’s great if it can really serve that niche (so far… mostly HN-user-types, I would bet).

But it seems hard to make money at that scale and with a non-advertising business model. So godspeed Kagi, I guess.