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[โ€“] meliaesc@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (4 children)

A paid search engine... ๐Ÿค”

[โ€“] dan@upvote.au 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Many people would prefer a paid service over an ad supported one.

[โ€“] ikidd@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Many people would prefer that their search history isn't associated to personal and payment information.

[โ€“] meliaesc@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I generally agree with that, but as an aggregation service it would need to justify not providing any actual content/information with its price structure. The same argument against AI models trained with user data.

[โ€“] monobot@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

It still costs money for hardware and hosting. Scraping web and training AI ain't cheap.

[โ€“] filcuk@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago

We've been conditioned. Everything has a cost.

[โ€“] Corigan@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

I'd be curious to sign up if the paid version wasn't search capped.

I search a lot of random stuff or typo etc I feel like I'd burn through the allowance in 2 weeks

[โ€“] jezza@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

People expect a free thing to always have your best interests at heart.

Kagi makes sense to me. I pay for a product.

(just as a random side note, lenses alone would make it worth it)