From TFA:

So what do we search with instead of Google? There isn’t a lot of choice. There’s various flavours of Google or Bing.

[…] Kagi resells Google’s actual link results for a monthly subscription. Kagi is really an AI company that sells search as a sideline, and they’ve got a terrible AI slop news service too. But the search has a good reputation for now.

I went to the landing page, expecting garbage genAI images; it did not disappoint.

GEMA versus OpenAI. Whoever wins, we all lose.

But I’m still happy to see them fight.

So many of the criticisms here survive essentially unchanged, fifty years later:

If he calls the main loop of his program “UNDERSTAND”, he is (until proven innocent) merely begging the question. He may mislead a lot of people, most prominently himself, and enrage a lot of others.[…] If Quillian <1969> had called his program the “Teachable Language Node Net Intersection Finder”, he would have saved us some reading. (Except for those of us fanatic about finding the part on teachability.)