More of a question for the developers re:search results ethics

exhausto

Not sure if this is the right place to reach out to the developers/founders, but:

Earlier this year I read Safiya Umoja Noble's book Algorithms of Oppression, about how Google's search results (for a long time) had no guardrails against reinscribing existing inequalities and prejudices in the content found online. Noble's examples are along racial lines--"black girls" returning pornography instead of images of children, "black on black crime" porting users to white supremacy hate sites.

I'm curious to know what Kagi is doing right now to not make the same mistakes Google made along these lines.

Thanks!
Casey Roberson
A University Librarian
USA

Vlad

exhausto It is a very broad question so I'll answer broadly

Kagi does not apply biases, however it may inherit them as we source results from many search indexes
This is as the same time our biggest strength, as the diversity of our search sources assures diversity of views in the search results along almost every relevant axis for the world we live in.