> They expanded into too many domains and spread themselves too thin and that doesn't give me confidence.
That's because imo there is no way to grow this bigger with a search service. Same for open source browsers, just look at Firefox instead of focusing on bugzilla and push for new web apis, they're trying very hard everything else than can be monetized
Search is super valuable.
Google managed to monetize the everyday person's searches, but at the detriment of everyone that wanted to get nontrivial work done that needs in depth search.
Lots of institutions want quality search. They could index high value things, and sell them directly to businesses, universities, etc.
> Search is super valuable
It is for Google there isn’t much else we are left with
They could do nothing but marketing and maintenance, and watch as their competitors continue to make the same mistakes that drive people to Kagi in the first place.
So... they shouldn't grow. There's nothing wrong with having a sustainable business doing one thing and doing it well.