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I'm in the target audience. I know what a search engine is. I know how to change my default search engine in all of my browsers, which I know are distinct from search engines. I care about privacy enough that I default to DuckDuckGo, not Google. It would take some convincing, but I'm neither opposed nor unable to pay for a better search engine. I read HN somewhat regularly. This is the first time I've heard of Neeva.
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Hi notcensored02, thanks for the comment, and I get where you are coming from. But, I don't think it was ever free to host your own services since we have to pay to buy computers to use as servers, electricity, internet connection and since the ISPs broke the internet, IP addresses. In some sense, the problem was companies starting to offer these things FOC except we didn't realize the true cost of it then.
I make youtube videos empowering people, showing them how to do many things that might otherwise cost them money if they didn't know better. The last few videos I made were 1. How to download, decrypt, and OCR (searchable text) books from the internet archive using Debian Linux and python3. 2. How to run your own Jitsi Meet voip WebRTC voice chat web server which allows for end-to-end-encryption. 3. How to download p…
If you say so. Plenty of forums are going to stop you from yelling at people you disagree with.
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Hello, I looked at Kagi and found it too expensive. I'm a paying user for many software I use: vpn, email, git to list a few. And i am willing to pay a reasonable price for a search service. To put it in to perspective, my vpn costs less than $9 a month and I use it for high speed multimedia streaming, video games with no limits on usage. I hope you can come up with more reasonable pricing plans or consider open-sour…
We are trying to find a way to return to $10/mo unlimited searches. It is not for the lack of trying that we are not there already and we are trying to ensure Kagi's long term sustainability. Very grateful to all our customers supporting us in this period.
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I’m a very happy Kagi user, the search results are way better (subjective, I know) for me, that is, I can usually find what I’m looking for in the first few entries. I’m under the early adopter pricing but I fear that the higher price (and cognitive effort in lower prices to keep track of how many searches I’ve made) might make adoption a bit harder. I really really really don’t want Kagi to go away! I’ve shared with…
Fellow Kagi user here and for me the search results are so similar to Google's that day-to-day I don't notice which search engine I'm using. This is good and bad: Kagi is on par with Google but for me it hasn't enough benefit to pay for it in the long run. When it comes to your point of repeated searches: I wish my search results would be a combination of global (unpersonalized) ranking and local personalized ranking…
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The original reference is probably Levitt's "Marketing Myopia" ( https://books.google.com/books?id=Zn4foOUm3AoC ). Levitt uses it to illustrate that companies should focus on customers rather than products.
Well OPM came out in 1991 so I doubt it. https://youtu.be/62kxPyNZF3Q
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Interesting. What I mean is that forums used to feel welcoming and moderators were much more hands off - usually only acting because of general outcries People would also usually post from multiple users whereas now it's all about tanking karma
I think the volume of self-promotion in places that allow it has increased to a point that failing to take some action to limit it will lead to a forum most people don't want to participate in more often than not.
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Well OPM came out in 1991 so I doubt it. https://youtu.be/62kxPyNZF3Q
Note the imprint, "Harvard business review classics." What I linked to is a 2008 republication of a book from 1975. The buggy-whip analogy also appears in a journal article of the same name by the same author in 1960. More info here: https://hbr.org/2016/08/a-refresher-on-marketing-myopia