>Also, you can’t forget that every search actually costs them money, as every single search incurs the fee from Google and Microsoft for their APIs. I think the

>Also, you can’t forget that every search actually costs them money, as every single search incurs the fee from Google and Microsoft for their APIs. I think there was an idea around having a $5 trial plan with only 10 searches a day or something. Unlimited searches for $5 would be "We are losing money on every customer, but we are making it up in volume" Are they really querying Google and Microsoft for every search? This seems highly inefficient. Then Kagi is basically just a fancy wrapper. I thought their ambition was to build out Teclis and TinyGem to serve more and more content and rely less and less on other search providers. At the very least, I don't think they need to hit Google every time someone queries "games." This is hopefully queried once per period and stored in Teclis/cached. To be blunt, if this is just a fancy wrapper/aggregator then there is no reason to use this over you.com.