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Kagi gets talked about on here constantly, and it's not even on the list (though I suspect there's a reason?)

Not that I'd expect them high up on the list, but Kagi sends the following response header:

    Referrer-Policy: same-origin
As a result the browser won't send a Referer header with outgoing links, completely excluding them from this report.

Even if they could technically show up in the logs, we know that their MAUs are 5-6 orders of magnitude lower than Google's, from their own claims.

To be exact, we are about 8 seconds worth of Google daily queries :) [1]

Not much, but each one of those deliberate & paid.

[1] https://kagi.com/stats?stat=queries

If my math is right, that would put it between Lilo and Startpage in the rankings

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