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Kagi search reached 20k paying members

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Re: Kagi search reached 20k paying members

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Post by NelsonMinar »

evanjrowley wrote: post #15

Why is their logo the letter g instead of k? Have they considered the risk of a trademark violation lawsuit from their competitor, Google? As one of the 20K paying members, I feel embarrassed that I hadn't noticed this until now. Because this article presented the idea of wearing a Kagi T-Shirt, I suddenly started to care about what the logo looked like. Also, yes, I am excited to rep Kagi search.

I find it really confusing in the favicon in my browser when I'm typing searches. It's clearly not Google's brand, but why is it a G? (They have a whole FAQ about this which I did not find convincing.)

Re: Kagi search reached 20k paying members

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Post by RcouF1uZ4gsC »

Kagi having a small user base is actually an intrinsic advantage in that there is no SEO spam arms race.

It is not worth it to website operators to spend money/time trying to game Kagi’s algorithms.

Because of this, as a paying user, I hope they can find a sustainable business with a relatively small number of paid users, where they can make nice profits and have nice salaries for their employees based of selling a service to a relatively few people who value it.

Re: Kagi search reached 20k paying members

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Post by aidenn0 »

lolc wrote: post #18
user- wrote: post #11

Am I actually reading that they spent 33.33% or $220k of their investor money on printing t shirts?

Would be about one month of their revenue at current if you want to believe my quick estimate.

The absolute lowest it can be with their public pricing is:

9264 users on the annual family plan at $3/user/month = 27792

10799 users on the annual starter plan at $4.50/user/month = 48595.5

Total: $76387.5

Re: Kagi search reached 20k paying members

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Post by solarkraft »

cwsx wrote: post #21

I switched to them a few months ago, I was previously using duckduckgo (and Google before that). As most of you have probably noticed Google search results have seriously dropped in quality the last few years, but especially in 2023. I'm no longer able to get meaningful results for almost any topic, especially if it's technical, the only results are AI generated (?) / obvious SEO spam websites. It takes me multiple d…

Does it have an option to exclude commercial websites? That'd be quite useful to me. Pretty much every time I try to find information about a product, all I find are sites trying to sell it to me (but I already have it and want to find information about it, damn it!).

Re: Kagi search reached 20k paying members

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Post by EasyMark »

Zetobal wrote: post #9

My results got so much worse since they started using the brave API for search results I had to cancel. Was a great product but I am back on self hosted search.

That's your choice, but not all of us want to wear our politics on our search engine. I don't support what the Brave founder did, but there are probably 100+ people there that don't think that way and are just working and living their lives, and since Brave doesn't have any stance one way or another, it's just another company with a service to me. So is Kagi

Re: Kagi search reached 20k paying members

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Post by yabatopia »

evanjrowley wrote: post #15

Why is their logo the letter g instead of k? Have they considered the risk of a trademark violation lawsuit from their competitor, Google? As one of the 20K paying members, I feel embarrassed that I hadn't noticed this until now. Because this article presented the idea of wearing a Kagi T-Shirt, I suddenly started to care about what the logo looked like. Also, yes, I am excited to rep Kagi search.

It’s a g? To me, the logo looks like a depressed, lonely circle sitting on a bench. But that’s probably just me.
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