Kagi Can Hide Paywalled Search Results: What Publishers Should Measure
Kagi added a preference to remove paywalled links from results. Publishers need a matched on/off test before blaming crawling, indexing, ranking, or the filter.
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Kagi Search and Assistant controls, APIs, result behavior, and reproducible search tests.
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Kagi added a preference to remove paywalled links from results. Publishers need a matched on/off test before blaming crawling, indexing, ranking, or the filter.
Migrate Kagi Search API collectors by preserving raw responses, separating related queries from results, retaining original and normalized links, testing unknown types and canarying the parser.
Compare Kagi AI-on and AI-off search through paired queries, fixed account settings, randomized order, separate result layers, transparent limitations and a reusable ledger.
Record the account, lens, domain personalization, request and response evidence needed to decide whether two Kagi Search API result sets are comparable.
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