Comment on Kagi search has improved their ultimate plan
jmp242@sopuli.xyz 9 months agoThis I don’t understand. Why should search be free? Who do you think would do that amount of work and donate it to the internet? Search has always cost money, we just paid with ads and that model has kind of reached its enshittification maximum to be useful to me,and apparently others.
0ddysseus@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Governments. The internet and the knowledge it gives to people is the same public good as roads, water, power, sewerage, etc. All of these in a reasonable modern society need to be owned and maintained by the government through taxation and provided to the public for free.
hansl@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I get what you’re saying, but that’s still not free. You just roll up the cost in taxes.
iopq@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Then they would spend billions and it would be worse than the current alternatives. They have no incentive to have more users, in fact it costs more to be useful than to just take money from the government and have no users
whs@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Your government might offer it for their citizens, but do the taxpayers want to subsidize the access to other billion people on the internet who do not pay tax to your government.
As for my government, I don’t trust them enough to not push state propaganda in search results.