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Yes, but at $5/300 searches they're trying too hard to squeeze $10 out of you for the unlimited plan. 300 searches is ridiculous.

by pmdr 5mo ago

jesse_dot_id 5mo ago
This thread is about injecting ads into searches. Kagi's business model requires you to pay them instead of being bombarded with ads. So...
- handedness 5mo ago
  We can replace the primary and (formerly) indispensable product of a company with a $4T market cap for $5-10/month (less if annualized), and some people still gripe.
inetknght 5mo ago
I suggest you try their service (for free) before you start criticizing their pricing.
- pmdr 5mo ago
  I was a paying customer for a few months. Good service, but severely limited by the 300 quota.
handedness 5mo ago
Have you ever looked at the browsing history of a non-technical, non-tech-addicted older person? I'm usually surprised by how little activity there typically is. The $5 plan is great for gifting Kagi to non-tech friends and relatives who won't come close to exhausting that plan. I pay for it for older relatives I don't want to get burned by Google's decades-long unwillingness to police predatory tech support scam ads and organic listings. $54 annually for 3,600 searches is a bargain for the product they get. I appreciate that Kagi doesn't try too hard to squeeze $10 out of people who would never need it.
- Marsymars 5mo ago
  > Have you ever looked at the browsing history of a non-technical, non-tech-addicted older person? I'm usually surprised by how little activity there typically is. Non-technical, tech-addicted younger people too! Internet usage is primarily via social media apps with infinite scrolling, so there aren't actually all that many web searches happening. > The $5 plan is great for gifting Kagi to non-tech friends and relatives who won't come close to exhausting that plan. I pay for it for older relatives I don't want to get burned by Google's decades-long unwillingness to police predatory tech support scam ads and organic listings. $54 annually for 3,600 searches is a bargain for the product they get. This is a good idea! I've got a Team plan through work, but there's no way for me to cover family members with that.
- pmdr 5mo ago
  > Have you ever looked at the browsing history of a non-technical, non-tech-addicted older person? Search-wise, all they know is Google. I've seen people open Internet Explorer, search 'google' via a Bing search box, then click on google.com where they finally searched for a website they basically opened every day. IMO had they known Bing is also a search engine, they would've skipped searching for Google, so I'm a bit skeptical to people changing search habits. If anything, AI could be the replacement.
- SoftTalker 5mo ago
  I'm a tech person and 300 searches per month sounds like quite a lot to me, certainly if it's used outside of work. That's 10 searches/day, every day. Everything I access regularly is bookmarked. If I know the site I'm going to, such as wikipedia.org, I type it in the URL bar. I think 300 searches would be more than enough.
  - esseph 5mo ago
    > I'm a tech person (Not saying anything about you here) I've worked with a lot of people in tech over the years who weren't "tech people". Idk. The one thing I've always seen with "tech people" is a certain obsession for knowledge and learning.

Yes, but at $5/300 searches they're trying too hard to squeeze $10 out of you for the unlimited plan. 300 searches is ridiculous.

by pmdr 5mo ago

Yes, but at $5/300 searches they're trying too hard to squeeze $10 out of you for the unlimited plan. 300 searches is ridiculous.

jesse_dot_id 5mo ago

This thread is about injecting ads into searches. Kagi's business model requires you to pay them instead of being bombarded with ads. So...

handedness 5mo ago
We can replace the primary and (formerly) indispensable product of a company with a $4T market cap for $5-10/month (less if annualized), and some people still gripe.

inetknght 5mo ago

I suggest you try their service (for free) before you start criticizing their pricing.

pmdr 5mo ago
I was a paying customer for a few months. Good service, but severely limited by the 300 quota.

handedness 5mo ago

Have you ever looked at the browsing history of a non-technical, non-tech-addicted older person? I'm usually surprised by how little activity there typically is. The $5 plan is great for gifting Kagi to non-tech friends and relatives who won't come close to exhausting that plan. I pay for it for older relatives I don't want to get burned by Google's decades-long unwillingness to police predatory tech support scam ads and organic listings. $54 annually for 3,600 searches is a bargain for the product they get. I appreciate that Kagi doesn't try too hard to squeeze $10 out of people who would never need it.

Marsymars 5mo ago
> Have you ever looked at the browsing history of a non-technical, non-tech-addicted older person? I'm usually surprised by how little activity there typically is. Non-technical, tech-addicted younger people too! Internet usage is primarily via social media apps with infinite scrolling, so there aren't actually all that many web searches happening. > The $5 plan is great for gifting Kagi to non-tech friends and relatives who won't come close to exhausting that plan. I pay for it for older relatives I don't want to get burned by Google's decades-long unwillingness to police predatory tech support scam ads and organic listings. $54 annually for 3,600 searches is a bargain for the product they get. This is a good idea! I've got a Team plan through work, but there's no way for me to cover family members with that.
pmdr 5mo ago
> Have you ever looked at the browsing history of a non-technical, non-tech-addicted older person? Search-wise, all they know is Google. I've seen people open Internet Explorer, search 'google' via a Bing search box, then click on google.com where they finally searched for a website they basically opened every day. IMO had they known Bing is also a search engine, they would've skipped searching for Google, so I'm a bit skeptical to people changing search habits. If anything, AI could be the replacement.
SoftTalker 5mo ago
I'm a tech person and 300 searches per month sounds like quite a lot to me, certainly if it's used outside of work. That's 10 searches/day, every day. Everything I access regularly is bookmarked. If I know the site I'm going to, such as wikipedia.org, I type it in the URL bar. I think 300 searches would be more than enough.
- esseph 5mo ago
  > I'm a tech person (Not saying anything about you here) I've worked with a lot of people in tech over the years who weren't "tech people". Idk. The one thing I've always seen with "tech people" is a certain obsession for knowledge and learning.