> I see the stutter and slowness

Sounds like it is not maintaining 60 fps. Higher display refresh rate wouldn't fix that.

> matte is still the preference when it comes to monitors

The larger screen size of a monitor is more likely to reflect lights than a mobile phone screen.

Also when glare does appear, it is harder to adjust the viewing angle because the user is not already holding the device.

> "Could a meaningfully better search engine realistically displace Google today?”

ChatGPT clearly demonstrated that displacing Google is possible. All previous monopoly arguments seemed even more flimsy after that.

I think you’re proving the monopoly argument yourself: if they only way to compete with Google is an innovation that generations of scientists have been working towards, it does paint a grim picture of competition in this space. Besides, are we ignoring Gemini?

> "Our own small-web index"

Has Kagi ever said what this is? I wouldn't be at all surprised if it is just kagi.com pages or a download of Wikipedia.

> If other tech companies really wanted to break this monopoly, why can't they just do it

Companies would rather sue than try and compete by investing their own money.

> Because direct licensing isn’t available to us on compatible terms, we - like many others - use third-party API providers for SERP-style results

Crazy for a company to admit: "Google won't let us whitelabel their core product so we steal it and resell it."

Seems like an open question as to whether that violates any laws.

Another way to look at it is that if you publish a service on the web, you have limited rights to restrict what people do with it.

Isn't that the logic Google search relies on in the first place? I didn't give permission for Google to crawl and index and deep link to my site (let alone summarize and train LLMs on it). They just did it anyway, because it's on a public website.

What's the alternative? Building a competing search index as a relative nobody on the web is very difficult, from the outset, and is made more difficult from sites taking extra measures to stop bots in general now.

Google's crawler is given special privileges in this right and can bypass basically all bot checks. Anyone else has to just wade through the mud and accept they can't index much of the web.

Is it much different than what Google AI Summaries do?

Pretty standard business practice though. There's no ethics in making money.

Strange to pick on Kagi when there's much bigger companies on that list.

Those companies allegedly have used SerpAPI (probably to check visibility), but not to resell a Google Search knock-off.

What is Vimeo for as compared to YouTube or self-hosting video files?

Our business uses Vimeo because we get a discounted rate on acami CDN via their bulk purchasing power. YouTube is free but that comes with a lot of headaches. For example not being able to hide the recommended videos at the end of a video, which annoyed our clients in the past when we did use YouTube. YouTube also needs to be public to be embeddable, which also created issues for us. However this announcement has me terrified and literally scrambling for a backup plan.

Youtube also doesn't let you replace an already-uploaded video while maintaining the URL, which is incredibly painful if you need to edit a posted video for whatever reason.

Similar boat. Would appreciate hearing of options you end up considering.

If it's a small number of videos, specifically ones that are unlikely to go viral, then a self-hosted or externally paid hosted peertube site might be a good option.

Vimeo you manage your brand and presentation. YouTube you have little control over where or how your video is presented. Vimeo also provides VOD for some large brands and media companies.

Yeah, it's this. It's a hosting platform, not a social media platform. You see a ton of people who have short films, art projects, commercial portfolios and stuff like that hosted at Vimeo. They don't need/want comments, discoverability, or to deal with things like automated DRM takedowns. Clean, simple, video hosting.

You might like https://www.instagram.com/perfectl00p/

I'd believe Google cared more about RCS if it worked with Google Voice.