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I'm someone who builds cloud infrastructure for a living. I only touch AWS (Amazon), but the same applies to Azure (Microsoft) and GCP (Google).
Kagi is private. Saying that they "rely" on Google because they use GCP is akin to saying that the US Army relies on General Motors because they use Hummers. It's just a provider. They're renting virtual machines, compute power, storage, and network bandwidth nothing more. You can use GCP/Azure/AWS without your data ever being visible by GCP/Azure/AWS. It's not because you use GCP that you have to use AdSense/Analytics/Fonts, etc. They are completely separate.
Politicians would have a field day with all the cloud providers if using one thing forced you to use everything.
What kind of trust are you referring to? I trust that they take great pains to protect their cloud customer's data. CGP is not Google Search is not Google advertising.
Do I trust them to do the right thing environmentally? No. Geopolitically? No. But let's not get these all confused. They do support surveillance tech but surreptitiously mining their cloud customer's data has the potential to sink their entire business overnight.