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I've kept it thus far because I believe in the mission but man... I get why other promising search engines have fallen to Google.
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> 2% better Not in my experience, and what about user tracking and pervasive advertising? You don't seem to include that in your comparison.
>user tracking You can use Google anonymously but you have to log in and leave your payment data with Kagi. EDIT: apparently they accept crypto
I wish there was a way to just buy 10,000 searches as a block and charge down against it. I don’t search that much. I don’t want another monthly service fee. But I love the idea of paying for search. Id happily pay $5 for 300 searches, but don’t want to do that every month. This seems like the buffet or gym model where they want people just mindlessly paying and then not using it that much.
>This seems like the buffet or gym model where they want people just mindlessly paying and then not using it that much. I see this as the point to any subscription model. Of course they want you paying for more than you use/consume.
Id rather buy things.
I don’t want a car subscription. I want to buy a car.
I don’t want a book subscription. I want to buy a car.
I don’t a compute subscription. I want to buy compute hours.
Etc etc
I've been a paying subscriber to Kagi for over a year and I'm sad to say it just gets in my way and I often find myself just wishing I was using Google. I've kept it thus far because I believe in the mission but man... I get why other promising search engines have fallen to Google.
Care to elaborate on how it gets in your way? And what, in your opinion, Google does better? I use Kagi myself and I am very happy with it.
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> the business model is a tough one outside of niche HN types There are lucrative bundling opportunities. I am waiting fora corporate product; it's notable that Google Workspace still subjects you to ads in search. That's not only a data leak. It's also a constant attention tax on your knowledge workers.
Vlad here from Kagi. We are building one, would you like to chat? Would love to understand your needs. Please reach out to vlad@kagi.com
You might want the blog to prominently link back to https://kagi.com. "Home" took me to https://blog.kagi.com, I tried clicking on the pricing table image, etc. but nothing got me to the actual product.
I had to manually enter https://kagi.com to see the product behind the blog.
I would really love to see an API, possibly with a pay per request pricing.
They do have exactly such a thing: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/api/overview.html
Aside, possibly, but didn't Kagi used to be a company that collected money for shareware authors or am I hallucinating?
> Kagi.com was an e-commerce micropayment platform often used for shareware and e-book purchases, operating from Sept 1994 to July 2016.