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Reddit blocking all major search engines, except Google (readwrite.com)

submitted 3 months ago by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] palordrolap@kbin.run 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, but SearX does similar things. I've been learning about Kagi recently, and as far as I can tell, they don't index pages on their own, they just use APIs provided by the real search engines.

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

They do both. Which is how they're able to provide some of the more unique filters and lenses. They maintain their own indexes.

This is reasonably documented: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html