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Is anyone paying for Kagi, the search engine? What is your experience with it? (kagi.com)
submitted 2 days ago by Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Kagi is a subscription-based search engine that argues that paying for search is a reasonable thing to do in order to avoid ads and companies selling your information. They also have lenses, e.g. for searching the fediverse specifically. Anyone that wants to share their experience of using Kagi?

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[–] laranis@lemmy.zip 1 points 15 hours ago

I was gearing up for writing a long response but I can't do any better than this.

I can't go back to Google. Can't. The awfulness is so apparent after you've used Kagi for any length of time.

I will say I wish Kagi had a "shopping" mode. It does such a good job with removing ads sometimes when I'm actually looking to buy something it lets me down. But then I gnash my teeth and do a Google search. Google is always up to sell you some shit.

Seems like a "shopping" mode would be a good way to get Kagi some revenue, too. If, like it's AI features, it is completely optional and under the control of the user.