https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html
They use many sources, including other search engines and specific websites, but also claim to use two of their own indexes.
https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html
They use many sources, including other search engines and specific websites, but also claim to use two of their own indexes.
Can't say much in regards to perplexity, but I find kagi's index to be quite nice. Especially if you find fortune forum posts helpful (which I do as a software dev). It's paid only, so there's no advertising incentive to the company and also a ton of configuration. I search a lot, so I went with the 10 dollar plan. 5 bucks gets you 300 searches a month, 10 is unlimited plus access to their LLM which documents information sources like perplexity.
Personally, I found perplexity to be quite annoying with the more ai focused UI and trying to learn your interests. Kagi is a search engine first plus some other features they're developing.
There's a huge amount variety between the alternative sbc providers, but I'm general:
All of this makes it difficult to utilize alternatives without conducting considerable research into many different ones.
I would say the real issue is transparency. If Honey made it clear that their product overwrote the affiliate links referer, didn't actually find the best deals (despite advertising that exact thing), and then paid influencers to advertise their product that also steals from them, then this wouldn't be as much of a big deal if at all. Though they also probably wouldn't be a successful business, hence why many consider it a scam.