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I Lost Faith in Kagi

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40011314

I think it's great that the CEO wants to respond to criticism. It's certainly not scalable, but I don't see anything wrong with this response.

If someone stood in a public square shouting falsehoods about you and people gathered around to listen, you'd want to defend yourself too. The CEO could have written a public post about this blogger's personal attacks, but instead he tried to address them privately; the blogger pulled a 5th grader move and basically put his fingers in his ears and started singing "lalalalaala I can't hear you lalalalalaa".

This would have been not at all noteworthy had the Kagi CEO simply resisted the urge to reply and walked away. The blogger's first reply could be interpreted as antagonistic and he should have recognized that and chosen not to engage.

My advice for anyone who runs a company (or may): make an active effort to learn about (healthy) human interactions, as well as how to figuratively take one on the chin. Like much of life, you can't choose how you'll feel about circumstances you find yourself in, but you absolutely can consciously decide how you'll respond.

Didn't know about starting a T-shirt company using a 3rd of the money they raised. It's kinda bizarre.

But I'm still hoping they become sustainable and make it. I like using it and really do get great value from it.

Frankly, other than continuing to email him despite the explicit wish not to, the emails look totally reasonable.

Btw. the AI built-in to Kagi is imo excellent. I frequently suffix my query with a question mark to trigger their AI responder (it responds based on the content of a few top results, with citations), and the results are almost always great, and spare me the need to open each of the sites individually and look through them.

> no other search CEO has shown up in my email inbox to mansplain their company to me.

Using your opponent’s gender as an argument shows that you truly don’t have any actual arguments.

Shame this was flagged. A discussion of a spicy argument over search (one level away from the argument) should be allowed.

This is not an argument... the blogger said he didn't want to engage and the CEO continued to try and engage anyway.

Thanks for this, very interesting.

PS I wonder why the original blog post was flagged here on HN. It was also very enlightening.

Didn't this person's blog post make the front page of HN the other day? Why do they think it got "so little attention"? Said blog post and the resulting discussion is quite literally the only reason I know of Kagi's existence.

and shares the email exchange on mastodon.