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A paid search engine? Bold. I'd pay if it could do anything close to what the old google code search could do. I miss it every day.
by sillysaurusx 5y ago
A paid search engine? Bold. I'd pay if it could do anything close to what the old google code search could do. I miss it every day.
- dx034 5y agoThe cost per search query is incredibly small. You could probably have <1% premium users. If your search engine is used by a billion people a day, 10 million paying users are still enough to pay a few thousand people developing your product (depending on your location). I believe products can work that way, offer premium service and features for the very few that need it and a basic service to anyone else. In the end, the free tier is cheaper than what you'd have to spend on marketing otherwise.
- josh_p 5y agoIt's free while they're in beta. There's a "waitlist" but put your email on it and you'll get an invite within a week. Give it a try. I've been using it for a couple weeks now on my work laptop and for programming-related searches its been great so far. And the usual annoyances that show up at the top of google and DDG don't show up on Kagi (geeks4geeks, etc).
- fallat 5y agoIt's actually so good I plan to pay when they start charging.
- href 5y agoSame. I switched to it for a day just to give it a try and I never switched back. Absolutely willing to pay if the quality stays the same.
- smk_ 5y agoI’ll do the same as well. Kagi has literally improved my life a significant degree.
- spiderice 5y agoIt's really good in some ways, and very lacking (for me) in others. The search is fine. Good enough that I would switch. However, if I was out and about and quickly needed directions to Walmart, my normal flow with Google is Pull out phone -> Safari -> type "Walmart" -> click on the map -> Maps app opens and starts guiding me When I switched to Kagi, the flow went like Pull out phone -> Safari -> type "Walmart" -> top result is Walmart.com... no address to nearest Walmart to be found -> Close Safari -> Open Maps app -> search for Walmart And it got so annoying to have those extra steps. I know I can change my workflow and get used to it. But it wasn't just directions. It was other basic searches. Like if I needed a phone number for a local business. It drove me crazy. I really hope Kagi gets better at those sort of things. I want them to succeed. But it was just too much friction for me.
- richardsocher 5y agoWe found similar issues at https://you.com https://you.com a while back. We just had to be good for more query families. Now we have both the walmart locations in a map app, eg https://you.com/search?q=walmart https://you.com/search?q=walmart and coding related useful results, eg. https://you.com/search?q=how%20do%20I%20find%20all%20files%20containing%20specific%20text%20on%20Linux&fromSearchBar=true https://you.com/search?q=how%20do%20I%20find%20all%20files%2... or https://you.com/search?q=pyspark%20filter%20array%20element https://you.com/search?q=pyspark%20filter%20array%20element
- Ennea 5y agoToo bad you.com does not work in Firefox with the "beacon" function disabled (beacon.enabled set to false in about:config).
- richardsocher 5y agoHi Ennea, Can you help me understand why you make this particular change in the config?
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- TradingPlaces 5y agoI am a Kagi beta user, and I intend to pay when they start charging. I have wanted a paid ad/tracker-free Google for a decade now. I want to be the customer, not the product