But if Kagi manages to become a serious competitor in the search engine space, Google will cut them off from their index. Why will not they?
It’s possible but they would need to be so massive to even just start making a dent in google market share. And Google hasn’t blocked larger search engines from using their index
Last I read, Kagi is using data from 3rd-party scraping of Google results, because buying directly from Google comes with onerous limitations:
- Must not alter the order of Google's search results
- Must not alter the appearance or placement of Google-inserted ads