How can Kagi not see my queries?

Question

I recently subscribed to Kagi, the privacy-first search engine. I found on the Privacy page (https://kagi.com/privacy) this statement: "Searches are anonymous and private to you. Kagi does not see what you are searching at all."I'm quite skeptical. How can a search engine not see the queries of a user, and still provide the results to them?

endisneigh · Accepted Answer

They can, it's just that they're supposedly not associating the queries with you. Since Kagi isn't open source who knows what they're doing in practice.

Raed667 · Answer

There is a difference between:- Can't: technically impossible for them- Won't: choose not to (for now)Kagi just chooses not to link a search query to a user. (for now)

KomoD · Answer

They don't say they can't, they say they don't. You either believe them or you don't.

tetek · Answer

from landing page "We do not log or associate searches with an account" I guess it's nothing technological like FHE, but rather how they set up their system.