• dan@upvote.au
      81·
      6 months ago

      Many people would prefer a paid service over an ad supported one.

      • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        6 months ago

        Many people would prefer that their search history isn’t associated to personal and payment information.

      • meliaesc@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 months ago

        I generally agree with that, but as an aggregation service it would need to justify not providing any actual content/information with its price structure. The same argument against AI models trained with user data.

        • monobot@lemmy.ml
          2·
          6 months ago

          It still costs money for hardware and hosting. Scraping web and training AI ain’t cheap.

    • Corigan
      1·
      6 months ago

      I’d be curious to sign up if the paid version wasn’t search capped.

      I search a lot of random stuff or typo etc I feel like I’d burn through the allowance in 2 weeks

    • Jezza@lemmy.world
      45·
      6 months ago

      People expect a free thing to always have your best interests at heart.

      Kagi makes sense to me. I pay for a product.

      (just as a random side note, lenses alone would make it worth it)