~50 people around the world, mostly in their pajamas, outcompeting a tech giant on the things that actually matter.

My feelings exactly

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Ten reasons why I stopped using Google, and started using Kagi

One of my favorite projects just got an amazing set of updates!

Small Web got bigger!

We now have 30K+ of your blogs indexed and surfaced directly in Kagi search results. And we have categories now as well as mobile apps and browser extensions!

You get what you pay for!

Coffee with Vlad | Vladimir Prelovac | Cal.com Coffee with Vlad

To all Kagi users in Bay area - I am buying coffee in Palo Alto in exchange for some words of wisdom about what could Kagi do better/different.

Book a coffee here:
cal.com/vladimir-pre...

What an amazing time it was at the Hope conf - and it already feels like a decade away.

We just published a new blog post on the state of search and the critical need for open index access. The dawn of a healthier, user-centric web is possible, but it requires structural change.

blog.kagi.com/waiting-dawn...

Hard at work on Q1 planning. This is not an ad for Kagi Socks.

What have I done

Good reason to visit Belgrade.

hub.kagi.com

Kagi 2025 - Year in Review

kagi.com/2025

And if you missed it, our annual end of year community event:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HCd...

How Rhea Uses Kagi as a Computer Science Student (and Why She Pays for Search) YouTube video by Kagi

Meet Rhea, a German computer science student who's been a longtime Kagi member. She shares how ad-free search + Kagi Assistant transformed her studying, coding, and browsing:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1Cj...

My kids came with an idea for this one. We quickly built a prototype and few months later happy to announce we are launching Slop Detective game today! The purpose is to educate kids about AI slop and teach them how to fact check.

Thanks to Nat, Nicole, Nenad, Ratik and Kevin for making this happen

Today we are launching Orion Browser v1.0

blog.kagi.com/orion

It has been quite a journey for the last 6 years building not just a search engine so good that people would pay for it, but a web browser too.

Thank you all loyal users, supporters and customers.

And thank you to the Orion team!

Orion browser by Kagi folks.

And something big is coming next week.

The 7 Silent Killers of Success YouTube video by GrindBuddy

My attitude towards worrying explained here www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4Sc...

Kagi Mail anyone?

We now have a home base for all Kagi members worldwide! Come visit Kagi, come visit Belgrade!

Yesterday we wrote about how to take pragmatic stance with LLMs and use them for something actually useful

blog.kagi.com/llms

Today we launched Kagi Assistants - Quick and Research. This takes Kagi's infrastructure, superior search result accuracy, tools, UX and brings search/reseach assistant experience to a whole new level.

blog.kagi.com/kagi-assista...

Kagi is now 60,000 members and 7,000 families strong. That's 1M daily searches from our small rebel alliance, building a web that serves people, not advertisers. Every search strikes back at surveillance capitalism. Thank you for joining the rebellion.

Kagi logo with 'Join SlopStop!' text beside an illustration of Kagi's dog mascot wielding a net to catch floating robot faces representing AI-generated slop content

Today, we're launching SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search.

Join our collective defense against AI-generated spam and content farms:

blog.kagi.com/slopstop

Humanity deserves its taste back

Guess where is our company retreat taking place

Yes this was the misstep. Won't happen again. Thank you for your support 🙏

Back to building the products you actually want.

My apologies for the survey that went out to all customers - we don't do this normally. We meant well - we need data to improve the product. And thank you if you responded. Also I understand if it annoyed you. We get it - you pay for Kagi to avoid this kind of thing. Lesson learned.

We are slowing it down!

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