The Shift Towards Paid Browsing in a Free Internet Era

Kagi founder and CEO Vlad Prelovac joins the show to talk about the business of web search, the thinking behind Kagi’s own amazing search engine, and their upstart WebKit-based browser Orion.

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Unofficial but surprisingly good transcripts.

Links:

• Kagi.
• Kagi Blog.
• Kagi Search Stats.
• Kagi Feedback, the Kagi Search issue tracker.
• Orion — Kagi’s lightweight WebKit-based native browser for Mac and iOS.
• Vladimir Prelovac’s homepage.
• Apple’s 1987 “Knowledge Navigator” concept video, which supposedly took place in the “future” of 2011.
  • Wikipedia entry.
  • Daring Fireball, 2011: “The Type of Companies That Publish Future Concept Videos”.
• Wikipedia: “Essential facilities doctrine”.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.