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

    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.