Did you miss the part about them using DDG? They do have access to their search engine. If the choice were between no search engine or paid search engine, the

Did you miss the part about them using DDG? They do have access to their search engine. If the choice were between no search engine or paid search engine, then your point is a good one, but that's not the choice here. I'm a very happy Kagi subscriber btw. I think it's worth the money. I love the personal uprank/downrank feature and Quick Answers personally and get a lot of value from them. But if I didn't use those it might not be worth it to me either.