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I really dont understand why someone would pay for a general search engine. I would never. But obviously people find value in it and are willing to pay for it.
by victorbjorklund 3y ago
I really dont understand why someone would pay for a general search engine. I would never. But obviously people find value in it and are willing to pay for it. So seems viable as long as you can get enough such people to cover costs of crawling and indexing.
- distract8901 3y agoI pay for Kagi because it shows me what I ask for, and not what google and their advertisers think I should see. It gives me fine-grained and permanent controls over my search experience. I have Pinterest and other annoying sites blacklisted. It actually respects advanced queries including quotes and boolean operators. A search engine requires so many resources that there's just no way to make it ""free"" without turning it to absolute garbage. Google and DDG keep getting shittier and returning worse results. The time I spend slogging through all the crap on google to find the information I'm actually after far outweighs the cost of my Kagi subscription. Besides all of that, if I search for anything on google, it will be advertised at me for weeks or months to come. That just isn't acceptable to me.
- barrysteve 3y agoKagi's really good. It's like 2015ish Google (slight exaggeration, but close-ish). For my niche technical project it returns results where google doesn't. A customizable or more focusable/transparent search engine could be worth paying for. The deeper problem is the content of websites isn't really improving, I suspect.
- muzani 3y agoIt seems to be what Google's original business model should have been. But we didn't have proper internet payment solutions at the time, so ads it was.