The federal government argues Google has smothered competition by paying companies such as Apple and Verizon to lock in its search engine as the default.
Kagi looks neat but they'd have to have absolutely amazing results if they want me to pay for them, which I doubt they have… And sorry, but paying $10/month for a fucking search engine (where the actual cost per user is negligible and profit scales with number of users extremely nicely) is just insane.
I guess Google would make at most about $1/month off of ads from me… if I didn't block them. I'd be willing to pay that, maybe up to $3 for a really good service. But this is just insane, and continues the trend of "oh you like a service that's not complete crap? I guess you should pay an order of magnitude (or several) more than what's necessary to provide that service, because fuck you, what can you do?"
If I had to pay for every service like that I'd probably spend $500/month just for that and then they'd still figure out that hey, we can still put ads in and make a little bit more cuz why not, what are they gonna do?
You are not wrong, but Kagi is basically still a baby. They started maybe like last summer or so? And already decreased their prices twice (well, relative prices.) I think if we give them some time there will be a good priced tier for everyone.
P.S. Search engine is not the only thing they have.
Kagi looks neat but they'd have to have absolutely amazing results if they want me to pay for them, which I doubt they have… And sorry, but paying $10/month for a fucking search engine (where the actual cost per user is negligible and profit scales with number of users extremely nicely) is just insane.
I guess Google would make at most about $1/month off of ads from me… if I didn't block them. I'd be willing to pay that, maybe up to $3 for a really good service. But this is just insane, and continues the trend of "oh you like a service that's not complete crap? I guess you should pay an order of magnitude (or several) more than what's necessary to provide that service, because fuck you, what can you do?"
If I had to pay for every service like that I'd probably spend $500/month just for that and then they'd still figure out that hey, we can still put ads in and make a little bit more cuz why not, what are they gonna do?
You are not wrong, but Kagi is basically still a baby. They started maybe like last summer or so? And already decreased their prices twice (well, relative prices.) I think if we give them some time there will be a good priced tier for everyone.
P.S. Search engine is not the only thing they have.
Their lowest plan is $5/mo for 300 searches.