Kagi Search - A Premium Search Engine
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Kagi is an ad-free, premium search engine for people who value their time, attention and privacy. With results optimized to serve you and not the advertisers, Kagi is lightning fast and offers advanced features for customizing your search experience.

Recently discovered a search engine thanks another social network (Pjuu). Appears as a premium search engine that take cares privacy. Anyone knows it? I’m trying the free version

  • Vexz@feddit.de
    1·
    1 year ago

    How exactly am I the customer if they don’t track me? Do they display ads? How do they cover the costs for this search engine?

    • Freeman@lemmy.pub
      2·
      1 year ago

      You are paying them for the service and the costs to make a custom search engine. The only thing they keep track of is the number of times you queried the service. They don’t track queries or even see them. You don’t have a search history and can’t see previous searches because it’s not tracked

      There are no ads. They aren’t just proxying your search like DuckDuckGo.

      • Vexz@feddit.de
        1·
        1 year ago

        I see! Thanks for the clarification. I just checked their prices. Looks like you get X searches for a specific price. Not appealing to me but I bet many people are fine with that. I rather prefer a little bit of ads at the top of my search results (which I could block with an adblocker anytime) but that is just my personal preference.

        • clicky
          1·
          1 year ago

          If you just block their ads, then how are they funding themselves with the model you propose? Their audience is privacy minded, so much more likely to block ads.

          So they still need a revenue stream, and showing-but-not-showing ads isn’t it.

          I also block all ads, to be clear. But I don’t think they’d be able to make money off ads, for that reason.