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Why pay for a search engine

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162 points lr0 | 3 comments | 14 Oct 24 03:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.411s | source
1. smoovb ◴[14 Oct 24 05:06 UTC] No.41834368[source]▶
I would pay for Chrome Premium, as I pay for Youtube Premium. Prefer the Brave/YT Premium model where creators and sites get some share of your payment. The Kagi model, unless I missed it, seems to be "just pay us" with nothing going to creators.
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2. evoke4908 ◴[14 Oct 24 05:13 UTC] No.41834397[source]▶
Kagi is just a search engine. You're paying to access their index. There is no advertisement of any kind and Kagi has no relation to any site in their index.

This is like being miffed that Yellowpages doesn't pay businesses to list them in the phone book.

3. freediver ◴[14 Oct 24 10:48 UTC] No.41836265[source]▶
Kagi's mission is to humanize the web and it is boosting creators (small, personal blogs and websites) in search results:

https://blog.kagi.com/small-web

How would you design a system where creators are paid in a search engine? We have always had an idea of profit share for showing up in results but we would need to reach about 10M members for this to be more than few cents a month. (Kagi CEO here)