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> seriously look at which APIs are costing them so much, and just drop those Well, that would be bing and google. And combining those results is a good part of
by Semaphor 4y ago
> seriously look at which APIs are costing them so much, and just drop those
Well, that would be bing and google. And combining those results is a good part of the magic. Currently, the searches are actually paid for by subscribers, but the founder is paying everyone’s salary out of his own money, so that’s a bit of an issue ;)
- Melatonic 4y agoI wonder if Kagi could be a 501c and and there might be a way to get funding from other large providers? Google finances a lot of Firefox, for example, so there is not a monopoly in browsers. One could argue that means Firefox is beholden to Google but in an ideal world it would not be. Mozilla probably gets lots of other donors too. Kagi may be able to do something similar or at minimum get some big donations / endowments from wealthy people who support the cause.
- COGlory 4y agoNo no I totally get that. It's just....so expensive it seems unrealistic. I pay for /e/OS and /e/Cloud...I pay for a Hetzner box and give money to a number of open source projects. If I'm not their target audience, I'm seriously wondering who is. Maybe I just don't make enough. Anyways, great service, I hope they figure it out, but I really think they need to get the cost per search down.