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At the moment it has only proven that 0.00000000001% of users are willing to pay for search.
by carlosjobim 2y ago
At the moment it has only proven that 0.00000000001% of users are willing to pay for search.
- lolinder 2y agoThat's enough to be (apparently) profitable. It doesn't matter if most people don't pay for search as long as enough people do that paid search can exist. https://blog.kagi.com/what-is-next-for-kagi https://blog.kagi.com/what-is-next-for-kagi
- carlosjobim 2y agoAgreed. But let's not say that it's evidence that "people" in the aggregate are willing to pay for web search.
- lolinder 2y agoWhy not? People is the plural of person.
- tomrod 2y agoAh yes, the mystical 0.0073 units of people paying for search, assuming every person searches. Over a year ago, Kagi hit 20k paying members. This puts monthly ARR between $200k and $500k ($10 to $25/head), roughly. That's 0.000273% of all people -- quite a jump!
- dzaima 2y agoIt's more like 0.005%-0.02% of queries and like 0.001% of users depending on what statistics for Google you go by, but of course still very insignificant.