Because Kagi Search is a service I subscribe to. A browser is a program I install. That difference means everything.

But since I have your attention, I just want to add that I'm a huge fan of Kagi Search and it's well worth the money I spend for it. I love the work you guys are doing, and that love is the reason why I'm even thinking about using Orion. But they are two entirely different use cases.

I am pretty sure the expectation would be different if Kagi search could be self hosted. Linux people have come to expect open source for code they run on their own machines. Historically closed source Linux software has run into a lot of problems with dependency version mismatches as libraries get updated through the distributions package manager.

About half a year ago, I ran into an instance of a user who requested more openness[0] regarding the sources Kagi used - initially there was a list that was available, and then it was removed. I know it's not exactly the same, and it's been a long time since that request was made, but if you happen to read this, I second their request.

Personally, I think it would be incredible if you open sourced your search engine. But like someone else said more eloquently, software runs on our computers. And to me, open-source software is table stakes when there are viable alternatives.

https://kagifeedback.org/d/252-show-source-of-results/49

I'm not the one running Kagi on my computer, and the expectations of software ran over a network are and should be different from software I run on my computer

Code you run on your machine outside of a browser sandbox vs content served by an HTTP endpoint to your machine.

Kagi Search runs on your computers, Orion runs on ours.

Please do that too!

There aren’t great open-source search engines, so I’m moving from one proprietary option to the next. But there are great, open-source browsers already, and I refuse to go backwards.

If a good, open-source search engine were available, I would leave Kagi for it.

Yup, I was about to comment on that as well, but didn't want my question to be interpreted as polemic.