On one of my sites I received a million requests from Googlebot before lunchtime today. Those requests were spread over hundreds of IPs. I get similar traffic from them and other hyper scalers daily. I'm just one guy. I don't have load balancers and endless engineering budget. I'm sick of this.
Surely if you're dependent on search, you don't HAVE organic business no matter that they call it organic search traffic? "that thing I get from whosit but I don't recall them yea them" is kind of always going to be very variable.
That said a colleague said when his brother-in-law stopped paying for placement his printer/toner supply business tanked, despite him believing they knew who he was. Nobody knows anyone.
Not going to read it again but if I recall it was more than half complaining about things not at all related to kagi search. Stuff like how they manage their finances and administration.
Sure that effects how well they can deliver search at some level but ultimately if their search is better than alternatives then I'm gonna keep paying them.
Wrong gut feeling then. It complains about Kagi not focusing on what their unique proposition is, and then about the t-shirts. That can all be true, at the same time as their core product is still also great.
