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Ask HN: How can Kagi not see my queries?
3 points by Einenlum on Aug 5, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments
I recently subscribed to Kagi, the privacy-first search engine. I found on the Privacy page (https://kagi.com/privacy) this statement: "Searches are anonymous and private to you. Kagi does not see what you are searching at all."

I'm quite skeptical. How can a search engine not see the queries of a user, and still provide the results to them?



They can, it's just that they're supposedly not associating the queries with you. Since Kagi isn't open source who knows what they're doing in practice.


There is a difference between:

- Can't: technically impossible for them

- Won't: choose not to (for now)

Kagi just chooses not to link a search query to a user. (for now)


They don't say they can't, they say they don't. You either believe them or you don't.


from landing page "We do not log or associate searches with an account" I guess it's nothing technological like FHE, but rather how they set up their system.




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