(In your opinion)

I’m using DDG, but I’m not satisfied with it. The quality of answers is subpar and I find myself switching to google or LLMs when I’m researching some things where community opinion matter (for some reason reddit and forums are undervalued by DDG algorithm).

I could try daily driving alternatives, but I know I will be biased and it will noticably slow down my workflows.

    • Babalugats@feddit.ukEnglish
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      2 days ago

      No, how often you would need to use a search engine that would give you the results that something like kagi would. price vs privacy is a great selling point as mentioned by somebody else, but $60 per year is probably regarded as a bit high to many users.

      You could probably get similar results using many different engines for the same query, or their free tier, which could be good enough to get people to agree with their pricing. 🤷

      • PagPag@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        I get where you’re coming from but $60/year is not a large cost for the majority of people in developed countries imo.

        Privacy is one aspect but also consider the time spent wading through AI slop and marketing bullshit when trying to find pertinent information.

        $5 is a very low cost per month in any developed nation all things considered. It’s disingenuous to say otherwise.

        • Babalugats@feddit.uk
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          2 days ago

          $60 per year to search something is too much. But, the price of all tech is too high. It has never properly been structured and companies charge what they want.

          $60 per year might be ‘nothing’ to you, but not all people in every developed nation would agree. Many could feed 3 families or more on that for a month. Edited because my brain exited for a minute.

          Developed nation or not, the pricing structure of tech that has driven up the cost of everything around the world needs to be reigned in.

          I could use:

          • Kagi free tier for 100 uses per month
          • Qwant - Free (do not collect or sell data)
          • Brave - Free (Claim not to collect data)
          • DDG - Free (do not collect or sell data)

          And many more. So how is Kagi “Starter” worth $5 per month + sales tax and limited to 300 searches (Advertised as “Enough searches to get you going”).

          That argument could be repeated (and they hope it will be) as to why the ‘professional’ ($10 per month + tax) or ‘ultimate’ ($25 per month + tax) are better. Effectively saying that the $5 per month is barely worth paying for.

          • PagPag@lemmy.world
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            2 days ago

            That pricing scheme broken out makes more sense in the context now. I don’t have it but was more pointing out the cost at face value.

            I agree with many points you’ve made but feeding 3 families on $5/month? Assuming USD… there’s no fucking way lol.

            Even if we’re talking $60/month. Break it down to $20/month per family, $5 per week? There is zero way this math makes sense. Even $5 worth of beans and lentils alone would not cover a single family when you consider that there are other things needed to not lead to a nutritional deficit.

            • Babalugats@feddit.uk
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              2 days ago

              Lol.

              I agree. I don’t know what way my head was thinking. I was thinking of the $60. $20 per month is doable, especially to those that have no other choice, but admittedly it would be a stretch. But the point is the pricing (not just for kagi).