In months where you don’t utilize any searches on your plan, we will automatically apply a full credit to your account for that month. This credit will be applied to your next billing cycle, effectively covering your subsequent month’s subscription at no additional cost.

  • aaron@lemm.ee
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    14 hours ago

    We have implemented this for the simple reason of being kind to our users

    Eh, ok. This is a good user retention strategy if your product isn’t interesting enough to use for most users. Can you imagine any other product offering a free month if you didn’t use it for a whole month? Kagi is near death.

    edit: downvoters have six-to-eight figure salaries at Kagi

    edit 2: Kagi sent out an email to its 15 staff to downvote my comment on its grassroots marketing plot

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      I pay for kagi because it’s genuinely less frustrating to use than searxng, duckduckgo, bing, and whatever shit Google is up to these days.

      They’re fine search engines but after years of using them I found they annoyed me sometimes; their limitations will surface if you use them long enough. In contrast, I haven’t ran into a kagi search results page yet that has annoyed me by not finding what I expected to see.

      The problem is that Google was good for a long time and then that became the bar everything is measured against. None of the free ones I tried came as close to that Google-like search from the before times as this paid service does.

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      13 hours ago

      FWIW - most mobile data plans roll over if you don’t use them fully during the month.

      (at least where I live)

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        13 hours ago

        Kagi is rolling this out to people who never use their service. So that would be equivalent to you paying your mobile provider and never making a phone call or text for an entire month.