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How does that work? They have a contractual obligation to report to Microsoft and Google how many individual IPs have accessed Kagi domains and pay accordingly?
by Exoristos 3y ago
How does that work? They have a contractual obligation to report to Microsoft and Google how many individual IPs have accessed Kagi domains and pay accordingly?
- darekkay 3y agoNo, they pay per search query. 200k users make statistically 10 times as many queries as 20k users.
- mminer237 3y agoNo, they just pay for their APIs per search. It costs Kagi about 1¼¢ per search.[1] Each user searches 20 times per day on average.[2] So it costs Kagi $7.50/month just to physically provide one person with search results, ignoring any overhead like buildings and employees. To keep the lights on they have to charge at least more than that. [1]: https://blog.kagi.com/status-update-first-three-months#financials https://blog.kagi.com/status-update-first-three-months#finan... [2]: https://kagi.com/stats https://kagi.com/stats