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Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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I'm trying Kagi now : - search results are greats ! - the speed isn't that great (results can take more than 1s to show) : does it become faster once you pay for it ? Or maybe it has to do with the access from europe.

That should not be the case - Can you post more details on https://kagifeedback.org

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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post #489

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The term "whitewashing", like many uses of the color "white" has nothing to do with race. Rather, it is a metaphor referencing a type of paint. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewashing_(censorship)

There are many meanings to the term whitewashing, including applying a semitransparent white finish to wood. I may have simply misread the GP and picked the wrong meaning, but I was going with this definition https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/whitewashing-words-...

Not only have I never heard that definition used, I don't see how that definition makes any sense in context. The older, more commonly used meaning is clearly the one being used here.

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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post #65

How many is unlimited? Presumably they don't get unlimited searches for $10 and, inevitably, someone will use more than they planned for. How much more than they expected is considered "fair use" or however they want to term it and why can't I know that before I sign up instead of guess I'm within what they are thinking?

While I think your questions are definitely relevant, in practice, you search less than you think. I consider myself as a heavy search engine user but, based on Kagi stats, I was surprised how much less I actually searched compared to my estimate. My actual range is about 500-800 queries a month when I originally estimated upwards 1500 queries a month. Same thing with my friends.

I tried Kagi and ended up hitting limits. Unlimited sounds nice, especially since I don't need to worry about how I'm "running out of searchers" so to say, but only once I know how much it actually is instead of just assuming "well, most people don't search much".

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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post #54

How many is unlimited? Presumably they don't get unlimited searches for $10 and, inevitably, someone will use more than they planned for. How much more than they expected is considered "fair use" or however they want to term it and why can't I know that before I sign up instead of guess I'm within what they are thinking?

I'm assuming they disallow bot use in their TOS. So they can probably offer unlimited searches that you run yourself by typing in the terms.

For $10 their cost for someone constantly typing new searches is significantly negative. It's surprisingly expensive for them to do a search and doing 1 search every 30 seconds for 8 hours is ~3x more than the cap of their $5 tier. I'm not saying that's a reasonable usage case for me I'm just saying the limit on profitability occurs SIGNFICANTLY sooner than "as fast as you can type for a month".

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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post #24

How many is unlimited? Presumably they don't get unlimited searches for $10 and, inevitably, someone will use more than they planned for. How much more than they expected is considered "fair use" or however they want to term it and why can't I know that before I sign up instead of guess I'm within what they are thinking?

Whatever the cap is, I’m sure it’s a lot higher than google will let you do before they start rate limiting you or making you do a captcha for every search. Pretty much all search services have some cap, after which they will put up roadblocks to slow you down

When trying out Kagi (prior to unlimited searches) my monthly Google searches were significantly higher than the cap. While some definitely do get CAPTCHAs, I wasn't. Adjusting this to the new unlimited price and it would still seem to be negative profit for them, hence the question.

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

#887

Much like youtube, I'm fine paying $10/yr, but $10/mo is pretty steep.

I pay for YouTube premium too, and it is $14/mo. Is that some different payment plan you have?

I don't, because almost $200 a year (with tax) is quite a bit more than my ad impressions otherwise pay for, none of which transparently goes to the creators.

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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post #341

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That ship has already sailed, they are already using AI in mass to generate original looking content.

En masse https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/en_masse

Which is French for "in mass".

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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post #654

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Not so plain. We do not (log AND associate), or we do not log AND we don’t associate? Am I supposed to believe that if their backend crashes after a user query, that can’t tell what has been queried?

" Kagi does not log and associate searches with an account." > Am I supposed to believe that if their backend crashes after a user query, that can’t tell what has been queried? I'm sure they'll know the query. They just won't know which user made the query.

And here lies the problem - there’s a difference between “we have no process that associates queries and users” and “the system is specifically designed to make this association impossible”.

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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post #580

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Does it warn you about typos in your "prhase that exists with a phrase " or just blanks out?

I wasn't sure because this never bothered me so I did a little experiment by searching for "does it warn about mispellings" (Note the intentional misspelling above.) And here is the result: We haven’t found anything. There are no results that match all your keywords exactly. Check your spelling, try different keywords, or try without quotes: does it warn about mispellings Edit: I then tried to repeat the experiment w…

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22does+it+warn+about+mispel...
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