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Two years ago, on June 1st, 2022, Kagi introduced ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-orion-public-beta ) a search engine that challenged the ad-supported version of the web.

Building a search engine is hard.

Dear Kagi community, Today, we’re happy and proud to have reached *20,000 paying members* , including over 1,500 families all over the world, in our community.

This year has been extraordinary for Kagi ( https://kagi.com ).

As a part of our ongoing pursuit to humanize the web, we are pleased to announce the launch of the Kagi Small Web initiative. ----------------------- What is Kagi Small Web? ----------------------- To begin with, while there is no single definition, “small web” typically refers to the non-commercial part of the web, crafted by individuals to express themselves or share knowledge without seeking any financial gain.

One of the most frequently requested features on Kagi has been the expansion of our payment methods so that more people can more easilly enjoy the benefits of Kagi Search.

Kagi ( https://kagi.com ) has successfully raised $670K in a SAFE note investment round, marking our first external fundraise to date.

We are thrilled to announce significant enhancements to our pricing plans, taking effect immediately.

*Orion beta 0.99.124* has just landed ( https://browser.kagi.com/#download_sec ) and is bringing over 160 new features, improvements, and bug fixes, making this our most significant release ever.

We are pleased to announce newly enhanced search results across various search features.

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the Kagi Family Plan, a new way for families to enjoy the power of Kagi Search together.

Universal Summarizer ( https://kagi.com/summarizer ) is an AI-powered tool for instantly summarizing just about any content of any type and any length, by simply providing a URL address (and soon ( #roadmap ) by uploading a file).

Kagi Search is pleased to announce the introduction of three AI features into our product offering.

*UPDATE* : This blog post is old and does not reflect current plans or pricing.

We’d like to give an update about the most important things happening at Kagi in the last three months.

When Sergey Brin and Larry Page came up with the concept of PageRank in their seminal paper The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine ( http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf ) (Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, Stanford University, 1998) they profoundly changed the way we utilize the web.

Today we are excited to announce the launch of the Kagi search Team plan.

Kagi search and Orion browser officially entered public beta exactly three months ago ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-orion-public-beta ).

Over the course of May - August 2022, Kagi has undergone an extensive security audit by Illumant ( https://www.illumant.com ) , an independent security auditor.

*Web tracking and ads are becoming a personal and societal problem.

*New* : More features in our Dec 22 update ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-search-dec22-update ) and May 23 update ( https://blog.kagi.com/search-enhancements ).

Orion ( https://browser.kagi.com ) may be a newcomer to the market, but it comes loaded with features.

(This is a whitepaper published in the early days of Kagi AI research) A neural network in a self-driving car may properly react in most situations based on billions of images it has seen.

(This piece first appeared on the kagi.ai blog ( https://web.archive.org/web/20200927234617/https://kagi.ai/last-mile-for-web-search.html ) a few short years ago.