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this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2023
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Care to explain? Or you're only capable of talking shit?
It sounds like what the picture is making fun of, already materialized in this kagi search engine. Paying for a search just is a about face from what the Internet was designed to be. You could argue everything is this way, but I'd then argue consumers are bigger pushovers now.
Everyone pays for search. You do it through attention/data traded to advertisers or currency.
If Kagi is functionally better than Google and respects my privacy, I would not mind paying for it.
Your purchase is monumentally stupid and he's laughing at that
Yet it would be interesting to hear, why this shocks you so much. :)
Is it because you don't think search engines are a service worth paying for or because Google, Bing, DDG … are free?
I'm not sure if this is really feasible (even though I'd be happy to see a working libre search engine). The problem I see is that a search engine is incredibly expensive to run, which makes it hard to maintain servers on a donation model.
I understand why you would pay and can respect it. But access to an organized and searchable internet is something closer to a right than a privilege, in my mind.