Kagi, the company behind a paid, private search engine1 of the same name, has announced it's bringing its Webkit-based Orion web browser to Linux. In a
    • lol_idk@lemmy.ml
      62·
      6 hours ago

      Interesting because of the pronoun drama or for some other reason?

      • IMALlama@lemmy.world
        61·
        4 hours ago

        Probably because they’re building their own engine from scratch. Many of the popular browsers these days are built on Chromium or Webkit. The only “big” alternative these days is Gecko, which is what Firefox uses.

        This matters because Chromium based browsers make up the vast majority of usage and Google has been using Chromium to drive web standards in the direction they think they should go.

        Wikipedia has an overview, but doesn’t really cover Chromium’s market capture. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_browser_engines

  • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
    2516·
    8 hours ago

    Okay, and? It’s a proprietary browser for a company sponsoring paid search using a Russian engine. I’m quite happy to avoid.

  • Zero@lemmy.caEnglish
    64·
    8 hours ago

    Any word on Windows? Despite the discourse around Kagi using Yandex, they did advise me that they are still building thier own indexes that are planned to eventually replace thirds party ones.

    I’m still not a huge fan of the overuse of AI, but I do think Kagi is on the right track in a lot of other areas.

    edit: I’m in the Linux community… Ignore the first sentence 😅

      • BossDj@lemm.ee
        7·
        7 hours ago

        Probably that engines are putting Ai in the forefront of searches lately

        • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
          11·
          6 hours ago

          Kagi doesn’t do that. It doesn’t even show you an AI response unless you specifically request it.

    • BossDj@lemm.ee
      11·
      6 hours ago

      So, duckduckgo also uses Yandex, right? I know Bing as their premier, but all these search engines use more than one source. I haven’t been able to see where any of them provide their entire list of sources. DDG and Kagi both previously listed Yandex and have since quietly disappeared their mention from their informational pages