If you are considering the Kagi search engine, there are aspects you should be aware of from an ethics perspective.
https://khevans.com/2025/08/21/kagi-ethics.html
”A portion of your fee goes towards Yandex, indirectly funding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Vlad, the CEO, has stated that 2% of their total costs in 2024 goes towards Yandex. He has also stated that there is no intent of changing this.”
”At least other search engines like DuckDuckGo have halted their partnerships with Yandex. Kagi’s refusal to do so and Vlad’s firm support of Yandex is quite telling. If others have ceased partnering with Yandex, why can’t Vlad?”
”It’s worth mentioning that Kagi previously listed the sources they used in their search. It seems that they’ve now hidden that information on that page, seemingly contradictory to their “commitment to transparency.”
”A portion of your fee goes towards Elon Musk’s xAI, of X/Twitter, to support Grok in their AI assistant. Indeed, you can simply not use this assistant, however all paying users are effectively subsidizing the cost of the Grok API calls. There is no way to opt-out of this.”
https://khevans.com/2025/08/21/kagi-ethics.html
”A portion of your fee goes towards Yandex, indirectly funding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Vlad, the CEO, has stated that 2% of their total costs in 2024 goes towards Yandex. He has also stated that there is no intent of changing this.”
”At least other search engines like DuckDuckGo have halted their partnerships with Yandex. Kagi’s refusal to do so and Vlad’s firm support of Yandex is quite telling. If others have ceased partnering with Yandex, why can’t Vlad?”
”It’s worth mentioning that Kagi previously listed the sources they used in their search. It seems that they’ve now hidden that information on that page, seemingly contradictory to their “commitment to transparency.”
”A portion of your fee goes towards Elon Musk’s xAI, of X/Twitter, to support Grok in their AI assistant. Indeed, you can simply not use this assistant, however all paying users are effectively subsidizing the cost of the Grok API calls. There is no way to opt-out of this.”
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Knappast en meningsfull övning om en inte får något att jämföra med: bing är Microsofts som är en aktiv deltagare i folkmordet i Gaza, Google är google så det är svårt att välja men de är inte direkt ett uppköp om en är upprörd över att stödja Grok, dessutom är Youtube är kvar i Ryssland så det är säkert en del pengar som går till ryska influencers.
Inget emot den här sortens konsumentinformation, men den behöver innehålla en god tumstock annar är den inte värd så mycket till andra än just de etablerade företagen som inte recenseras.
@tobychev @axbom Det finns bra europeiska alternativ. Ecosia, Qwant och Mojeek. Egna index, oberoende av USA och inget stöd till diktaturer. Dessutom samlar de ingen information om användarna. Bättre än vilken US-amerikansk sökmotor som helst. Skriver bland annat om det här: https://blog.zaramis.se/2026/05/24/vem-ager-de-europeiska-alternativen-till-de-stora-it-foretagen/