I love kagi and I've been using kagi for a few years now.
I so much need to tell you about my experience that I stopped everything to come tell you about it.
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Thanks Ninja for this evocative picture.
Almost every time I reach the search page after having written a search term in the URL bar (or my launcher app), before I can look at the results, my brain drives my eyes to the logo on the left of the search bar and tells me something along these lines:
"Watch out! your browser didn't use your beloved kagi page for this search, it errored back to google!"
Then I tell myself, after quickly observing the rest of the page, that "no, I'm truly on kagi, I can proceed!" And each time, it's either a bit, or a lot, unnerving, depending on what I'm doing and how I feel.
The black g on a white background (or the reverse dark theme variant), it seems to trigger 2008-2014 memories of google (inclusively 8 years of our lives since it continued until some time in 2015), when I loved them so much, and I can't seem to reset out of it.
And it's most certainly been more than a year that I experience this almost every time I reach the search page. I kept trying to convince myself that it eventually would pass, but it doesn't... it truly does not!
OTOH, looking at your favicon with a yellow or purple background is OK for me; it doesn't scream google to me.
Thanks for reading about my highly subjective experience.
Thanks for hearing your dogoland subjects. 🙂
BTW, thanks for the tee-shirt - wife loves it and had many compliments while wearing it at work yesterday.
Edit: I took more time to read most of the above comments. I realize how it could seem that I'm overreacting. I suppose I truly could get used to this g, given a few more months/years or more thoughtful reflection to break these thoughts away, if possible. It's also true that I could see this as bike-shedding. OTOH I suppose many, many people might share a similar experience for months or years. One could say that every kind of comment in this thread is representative of a group of people. We're each ambassadors for a set of people with similar, yet distinct, views. I did like reading the other comments to be reminded that we are all very varied creatures, aren't we? 🙂
