Welcome to Kagi, the paid search engine full of surprises, which today opened an account in the Fediverse!

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@kagihq is the very interesting project for a paid search engine, without tracers and with an accuracy in identifying results such as to exclude all Google spam.

Those who believe that #Kagi's costs are too high, should reflect on a small detail: if Google lets all those searches be done "for free", who pays those costs? The answer might seem simple: "advertisers".

Yet this would be an incomplete answer: like saying that rain is caused by clouds!

In reality, those costs are paid by users, by being milked and letting Google extract their "value", a bit like in the human farm in Matrix...

We first heard about Kagi on the @lealternative website (unfortunately, since then the prices have increased a lot, raising many doubts about the sustainability of the project) and recently Cory Doctorow also talked about it on @pluralistic

In any case, we are really happy that a service like Kagi's, effective and respectful of users' privacy, has landed here in the #Fediverse.

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[-] xnx@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 month ago

The number of searches i get for the $5 should roll over to the next month if i dont use them all. No way i will be able to convince anyone to switch to this when they will run out of searches every month

[-] UNY0N@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

That's a valid criticism.

On the other side: Pay for a year at once and get 3600 searches/year. The rollover also doesn't happen, but the effect is drastically reduced. Also get a discount overall.

I'm not saying that kagi is perfect, but fuck google sideways. Eat the rich. Pay for the product or you are the product.