Yeah, I've read around their documentation and they have a pretty compelling reason why one should prefer search engines where you directly pay to the search provider instead of relying on third parties such as advertisers to pay for your search usage.

I save way more than I pay for Kagi because it doesn't give me sponsored results and other garbage trying to make me waste money.

It’s been worth it for my spouse and me. Happy to pay for a product rather than being the product.

That actually looks really amazing! I really want more services to actually compel users to pay to support them, and make it a good decision to do so. I think this is the best suggestion so far. Thanks mate!

Yes, I tried that and have now got to the susbscribe or move on phase.

Went back to DDG and results really are not in the same league as Kagi so I may just cough up.

The search results are good but the limited searches make me anxious for running out. If it grows enough to the point where they can sustain themselves by offering the unlimited tier for $3-5 I might switch but not with the current pricing.

My problem with Kagi is that they're still running at a loss and they think AI will be their savior.

And their AI currently gives extremely wrong information but the devs think that's fine because the point of their AI is to be fast not accurate.

I liked it as a search engine but at this point I can't see it surviving. If they raised the prices to where they lost a lot of customers and still can't get to positive numbers they aren't going to fix it by having AI give you wrong answers.

Google for work + kagi for personal use has been pretty cheap for me.