Comment on Are there seach engines that dont depend Google and Bing, if not what are the barriers to entry of new search engines?

• blitzen@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I think part of why the internet sucks now is we’ve grown accustomed to too much for free.

  The $10 I spend on Kagi is the best subscription I have, and one of the only ones I still keep.

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• Steve@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Your search engine in a very real way is your internet. Nearly everything you see online starts there.

  If you aren’t paying for it, someone else is. And the reason they’re paying, is to make sure you get the internet they want; Not of the one you want. If you want the internet be be what you want, you have to be the one to pay for it.

  I don’t know where you live, but in most of the developed world $10 is roughly the cost of a single lunch. Not even a fancy one. What’s worth more to you? A single lunch? Or making sure the internet you see in your search, is the one you want to see, instead of the one an advertiser wants you to see?

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  • ttyybb@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s actually a good way of quantifying the price.

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  • AlchemicalAgent@mander.xyz ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    QFT right here. I just started using Kagi this month after being very impressed by the trial period. The $5/month starter plan gives an average of 10 searches per day. It doesnt seem like much but that’s a decent amount of searching for my personal use case. Truth be told I’ll probably end up going for the family plan at $20/month. Up to six users with unlimited search for less than a Netflix subscription.

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• br3d@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I think the best model would be that you top up an account and pay some small amount per search. That’s also a bit more transparent, and directly linked to use

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