Cory Doctorow discusses why exactly Google got bad and how he embraced Kagi on The Honest Broker Podcast.
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These are the kind of things that resonate deeply, thanks for sharing. Mine is 13 and is about to beat me at a triathlon event. Cound not be prouder. Btw please consider adding RSS feed to your site so we can add it to Kagi Small Web project.

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From our user Discord today, thought it was hilarious.

Trillion dollars vs a bunch of misfits around the world, working in our underwear. #wearehiring

Palo Alto local newspaper this morning.

1 out of 10,000 get it. That's enough :)

Your companion for a better web. In person. Soon.

You know that feeling when you search for something and actually find it? We charge $10/month for that feeling.

Only 1 in 10,000 Americans use Kagi.

Same ratio as people who bought iPhone in 2007.

Wonderful idea

First reaction: This is directionally correct. The above was extracted with the help of Kagi Assistant so may contain errors. A deeper reading will be necessary to get all the details.

Terms will follow "ordinary commercial practices": The court indicates that the agreements should align with standard industry practices and that it does not want to interfere with ordinary business arrangements. pg 177, 180

Pricing will not be at "marginal cost": The court explicitly rejects the plaintiffs' proposal to force Google to offer syndication at its marginal cost. It reasons that such pricing would destroy the commercial market for search syndication and harm other competitors like Microsoft and Brave. pg 175

No synthetic queries: Google will not be required to process "synthetic queries" from competitors. The court found that the plaintiffs did not provide enough proof that this was necessary for improving search quality or was a common industry practice. pg 178

Restrictions on use: Google will be allowed to place "ordinary commercial restrictions" on how competitors use the syndicated search results. This means competitors will be prohibited from activities like scraping, crawling, or indexing the results to protect Google's intellectual property. pg 177

Tapering cap: The 40% query cap will be reduced over the five-year license term. A Technical Committee will be tasked with creating a schedule for this reduction to incentivize competitors to become independent from Google promptly. pg 177

Query cap: In the first year, competitors can only use Google's syndicated results for a maximum of 40% of their total annual queries. This cap is intended to ensure competitors develop their own capability for searches and rely on Google only for the difficult "long-tail" queries. pg 176

License duration: The mandatory license will be for five years, not the ten years plaintiffs requested. The court views this as a temporary measure to help competitors become independent, not a permanent reliance on Google. pg 175

Let's break some of the key findings (with the help of Kagi Assistant - the ruling is 200+ pages and it will take time to process all)

Ruling source: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Judge Mehta came out with the remedies ruling in the Google monopoly case.

He showed very deep understanding of the matter and didn't fall for meaningless remedies such as breaking up Google, or divesting Chrome but went for search index access, just as we recommened: blog.kagi.com/dawn-new-era...

Greetings. Added your blog to Kagi Small Web :) You should try Orion!

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