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> it costs us about $1 to process 80 searches. $0.0125 per search seems awfully high. Do they think this cost can be compressed as more users use Kagi thanks t
by nnx 4y ago
> it costs us about $1 to process 80 searches.
$0.0125 per search seems awfully high. Do they think this cost can be compressed as more users use Kagi thanks to economies of scale?
- mdaniel 4y agoI would be interested if the distributed model that's allegedly used by Presearch.com would work for Kagi, since the members seem like they would have financial disincentive to poison search results. That said, I only know enough of how Presearch works from their whitepaper, because trying it out seemed like some tomfoolery and I couldn't figure out if the risk would be the same as me running a Tor exit node
- worldofmatthew 4y agoThey are using Google Cloud for APIs and AWS for DNS.... That's two costs that could be reduced with alternative providers. I wonder if the API calls to external providers could be cached. I am also wondering if they are also using expensive big-tech VMs in the background? I am feeling costs could be reduced.
- dceddia 4y agoI don’t know anything about the services they use to provide results, but I’ve seen some services (geocoding lookups, google maps tiles, …) where they explicitly forbid caching.
- worldofmatthew 4y agoYou would have thought that the people behind Kagi would look for sources that allow it.
- jpalomaki 4y agoI assume a big portion of the money goes to Google for their search API. Initially I could not even believe, Google offered this kind of paid version to somebody. And I’m still a bit suspicious if they are only doing this to gather insights on how much people are willing to pay for ad-free search.