For most techies in the west at least the price of Kagi should be next to nothing. I personally will happily pay $10 a month for a search engine that works and

For most techies in the west at least the price of Kagi should be next to nothing. I personally will happily pay $10 a month for a search engine that works and takes search quality seriously and has its incentives aligned with my best interest. And no, Google, Bing and DDG are utterly broken for many of the searches I do every week and I have written about it a number of times here and elsewhere since 10 years ago.