Basically the title. There are other privacy focused+free search engines, such as duckduckgo, startpage and brave search. What makes Kagi worth the $10/month?

  • ClusterBomb@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    112·
    11 hours ago

    I used to but people behind are bastards so I don’t give money to them anymore.

    It made me think of how I use search engines and most of the time I go on the same websites so I try to avoid search engines.

    I use Mojeek with their focus feature (it is like lenses of Kagi). If I really need a search engine I use Mojeek with no focus, but most of the time the results are not good enough so I give them a feedback and go back on Duckduckgo.

    • Sonalder@lemmy.ml
      5·
      10 hours ago

      Why are they bastards ? I am using Orion for some of my web browsing which is a Kagi product.

        • PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz
          8·
          8 hours ago

          TLDR:

          • Spent a third of their initial funding on buying a small clothing factory to give away free shirts to the first 20k subscribers (Noble act from them imo, but financially irresponsible to buy a factory for this)
          • Didn’t pay taxes in the first 2 years (Apparently under 1000 users they don’t need to do taxes or sm and haven’t expected 20k users)
          • CEO (Vlad) thinks AI can give you unbiased reviews
          • Author finds AI tools bullshit and Kagi is doing and planning a lot of AI related stuffs
          • CEO is very opinionated and thinks that difference in opinions are “misunderstandings”
          • CEO personally writes emails to unsubscribed people about why they have left
          • Doesn’t have GDPR cause CEO thinks email isn’t a personally identifiable information

          Probably I have forgot some stuff, but this is the gist of it for me.

        • Libb@jlai.luEnglish
          2·
          8 hours ago

          Thx for sharing. I do (happily) use Kagi as already stated in my other comment but I’m always willing to be more informed.