15h ago

Thoughts on KagiHQ? Is it worth paying for a search engine?

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?

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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.
- Why are they bastards ? I am using Orion for some of my web browsing which is a Kagi product.
  
  On the Orion forums their staff consistently bullies people around
  
  Kinda long to read : https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html
  
  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.
  
  Will take a read thx !
  
  Thx for sharing. I do (happily) use Kagi as already stated in my other comment but I'm always willing to be more informed.
  
  Curious abt this too

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