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Why pay for a search engine

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162 points lr0 | 1 comments | 14 Oct 24 03:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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RamiAwar ◴[14 Oct 24 04:53 UTC] No.41834309[source]▶
I would convert, but price is too high for me personally.

I'd be willing to pay up to 3$ a month for my searches, but also per-use.

If I make 0 searches, why do I need to pay?

A replacement for Google that is to survive should really convince and be super cheap, it's so easy to ignore sponsored search results (for now).

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ndndjdjdn ◴[14 Oct 24 05:19 UTC] No.41834423[source]▶
I think you could bundle online search and LLM, offline (personsal) search and LLM and it would make 10-20 bucks a month attractive. Why just do internet search. Be my search for everything!

I think it should be free or cheaper for people who genuinely cant afford it to give the equity of access that Google does.

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1. andrewinardeer ◴[14 Oct 24 06:13 UTC] No.41834699[source]▶
Top tier Kagi subscription allows you to tack a '?' onto the end of search and an LLM of your choosing will reply FYI.

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