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

  • Freeman@lemmy.pub
    4·
    2 years ago

    That is because of their business model, you are the customer.

    You don’t HAVE to use a real email either. vlad even says so. But it’s needed to collect payment. Otherwise they don’t track you searches, or even see them. The fees are for their operations and development.

      • Freeman@lemmy.pub
        4·
        2 years ago

        They display ads at the top of your search results and that’s how they make money.

        Kagi does not do that. In fact their search results give you statistics on links/returns about things like trackers etc. there aren’t ads in Kaji returns.

        here’s an example

        • Vexz@feddit.de
          1·
          2 years ago

          Sorry about that. I deleted my previous post because I thought it was an answer to another post. But you were faster with responding to it, haha. Yes, I understand their business model now. They want you to pay for a specific amount of searches. That’s how they cover the costs.

    • Vexz@feddit.de
      1·
      2 years 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
        4·
        2 years 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
          11·
          2 years 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@lemm.ee
            2·
            2 years 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.

          • Freeman@lemmy.pub
            1·
            2 years ago

            Correct. You can go lower and pay per search as well. And set a warning and hard stop limit.

            I do a LOT of searching for work. So the 1000/month is plenty and use it on all devices.

            They have features others don’t as well. Such as blocking certain domains from returning results. For example I filter out answers.Microsoft.com because that’s their question boards and it’s rare that anything useful is said there etc.

            They also support custom bangs similar to ddg.

            I find that I get better results for my job and faster with Kagi. So it’s worth the cost for me.