You get what you pay for!
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...
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.
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.
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!
Kagi News 😍
Yes there is slight element of FOMO to it, but at the same time I am not sold on the concept. Keeping using AI as on demand tool seems to be working well for us.
There seems to be a new Chromium browser with AI slopped on top of it every week. Is anyone doing it properly? Like it is actually valuable, you would pay for it?
The throne finally gets the surveillance it deserves (and I can sit with)
news.kagi.com/tech/2025102...
Achievement unlocked: 1M+ daily Kagi searches! 🎯
Thank you Kagi community! 🙏
