"Lost faith in Kagi" blogger gets in argument with CEO

Related:<p><i>I Lost Faith in Kagi</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40011314">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40011314</a>

I think it&#x27;s great that the CEO wants to respond to criticism. It&#x27;s certainly not scalable, but I don&#x27;t see anything wrong with this response.<p>If someone stood in a public square shouting falsehoods about you and people gathered around to listen, you&#x27;d want to defend yourself too. The CEO could have written a public post about this blogger&#x27;s personal attacks, but instead he tried to address them privately; the blogger pulled a 5th grader move and basically put his fingers in his ears and started singing &quot;lalalalaala I can&#x27;t hear you lalalalalaa&quot;.

This would have been not at all noteworthy had the Kagi CEO simply resisted the urge to reply and walked away. The blogger&#x27;s first reply could be interpreted as antagonistic and he should have recognized that and chosen not to engage.<p>My advice for anyone who runs a company (or may): make an <i>active</i> effort to learn about (healthy) human interactions, as well as how to figuratively take one on the chin. Like much of life, you can&#x27;t choose how you&#x27;ll feel about circumstances you find yourself in, but you absolutely can consciously decide how you&#x27;ll respond.

Didn&#x27;t know about starting a T-shirt company using a 3rd of the money they raised. It&#x27;s kinda bizarre.<p>But I&#x27;m still hoping they become sustainable and make it. I like using it and really do get great value from it.

Frankly, other than continuing to email him despite the explicit wish not to, the emails look totally reasonable.<p>Btw. the AI built-in to Kagi is imo excellent. I frequently suffix my query with a question mark to trigger their AI responder (it responds based on the content of a few top results, with citations), and the results are almost always great, and spare me the need to open each of the sites individually and look through them.

&gt; no other search CEO has shown up in my email inbox to mansplain their company to me.<p>Using your opponent’s gender as an argument shows that you truly don’t have any actual arguments.

Shame this was flagged. A discussion of a spicy argument over search (one level away from the argument) should be allowed.

This is not an argument... the blogger said he didn&#x27;t want to engage and the CEO continued to try and engage anyway.

Thanks for this, very interesting.<p>PS I wonder why the original blog post was flagged here on HN. It was also very enlightening.

Didn&#x27;t this person&#x27;s blog post make the front page of HN the other day? Why do they think it got &quot;so little attention&quot;? Said blog post and the resulting discussion is quite literally the only reason I know of Kagi&#x27;s existence.

and shares the email exchange on mastodon.