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Teclis non-commercial search engine is no more

by dannywarner on 12/7/22, 10:20 AM with 3 comments

• by dannywarner on 12/7/22, 10:20 AM

  I liked this. I don't like that they took it offline without even updating the home page. Frustrating. I was searching into the void.

  A friend who is a Kagi user told me that they posted on Discord they have taken it offline. Meh. It has been down for days. It was Kagi's contribution to free and open search launched when Marginalia came out.

  The home page still shows promotional spiel, but searches no longer work and it sounds like it isn't coming back.

  Maybes Kagi only launched Teclis to try to kill the handful of tiny independent non-commercial search engines like Marginalia.nu and Wiby. I weep for free and open non-commercial search engines when big corporates can do this to them.

  I am hoping for Marginalia.nu can thrive now. A commercial search engine running non-commercial search always seemed off.

  Does anyone know that means Kagi is just repurposing Google and Bing results now?