Vlad
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Founder/CEO @KagiHQ. Builder of user-centric products and a dad of three. Prefer lists to following. Email: [email protected]
Palo Alto, CA
Joined January 2017
When an article on AT reads like an ad for Kagi, you know you built something special. Comment section on fire.
Enough is enough—I dumped Google’s worsening search for Kagi
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Doing hard stuff makes work fun. Yes, Orion browser delivers a modern WebKit browser as far back as Mojave and we do plan to enable High Sierra support as well.
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I've been playing with Dia and Comet today and I see potential. Which reminded me that we had a concept of an AI enabled browser back in 2022. Aged pretty well! . Shoud Kagi build this into Orion and what are some of your favorite use cases?.
We are entering the "Smart browser" era!. We started integrating AI capabilities in Orion browser. The potential is mind-twisting and the demo shows just a fraction of ideas we have been experimenting with in the last 7 days.
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Cloudflare launched pay per crawl service in an attempt to centralize control of AI crawling economy. Interestingly there is an open source effort by Coinbase which may be a better way to achieve this for publishers (and this could be the first actually useful thing to come out.
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We made it to 50k customers!.
Today, Kagi celebrates over 50,000 paying subscribers! 🎊. Check out our latest blog post for exciting updates, including the free Kagi Search portal, Kagi for Libraries, new swag and stickers:.
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We had a 10 min global outage today caused by a nasty DDoS (who over you are - bad, bad person). Can't emphasize enough how much it meant for us that our users were cheering for us vs being angry customers. Helped with the stress 🙏. What our discord looks like in the middle of
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Three years in and still feels like the first day.
Kagi turns 3!. To our amazing community: thank you for your trust and support. Here's to many more years of building a web that works for you, not advertisers. Read more about our journey to date and what’s to come:.
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Kagi is back from Japan and our hearts are full with joy and respect for the humility of Japanese people. Here is what it looked like - one thing is certain, the trip was too short!.
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Reposting this from Mastodon because it's such a fantastic testimonial for the power of Kagi Translate, which is running circles around Google Translate. Síla calad!. Try at
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And Orion is the first browser that I've seen to score above 50 on Speedometer 3.1
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Soon to be released Orion version with new, optimized WebKit is 6-8% faster than latest Safari TP and 12-13% faster than most recent Orion beta. These are the kind of days I live for :). Big thans to the @webkit team for relentless pursuit for improvement and optimizations.
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RT @KagiHQ: Aaron Pressman described how "free" search engines come at an actual financial cost, sharing his journey that ultimately brough….
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Is your web browser a snitch?. sizeof(cat)'s independent test on which browsers "phone home" the most on first run: . Kagi Orion, Tor, Pale Moon = 0 connections 🎉 .High counts: Zen (82), Edge (48), Floorp (42), Opera (31), FF (29), Chrome (25). Full report:.
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6 years ago I started working on a search engine and a web browser that puts the user in the center of everything, breaking the circle of users being the product being sold on the web, that we had for decades. I've chosen the name Kagi (Japanese for "key") as I was always
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