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Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option.

$10/m is unlimited searches though…

And yeah, searches are actually quite expensive. There’s a LOT of infrastructure that goes into making something unique with your own search engine that isn’t just a wrapper over Google.

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MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
The business model just doesn’t make sense then (using search partners).

Because $60, let alone $120 US, a year is far more than most people would be willing to pay.

Dunno what to say, it’s just more than most people can justify paying for the service.

I’m gonna stick with DuckDuckGo and the newly free mullvad cached search

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- douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I mean, the business model works? They make money, they pay staff, and they are growing.
  
  I don’t know what you’re talking about, people have price sensitivity of course. You are projecting yours onto “everyone”, is it not a successful business?
  
  There’s a niche they cater to, if you are not that niche then you are not that niche. Doesn’t mean the niche doesn’t exist.
  
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  - MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Sure, but I’m still feeling like complaining that there isn’t a business that’s made affordable pay-to-search a thing. (That I know of)
    
    I’m not taking back that $120 USD/year for search is way more than most people would be willing to pay
    
    Though yeah, I suppose saying their business model isn’t working was hyperbolic, I must admit.
    
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