Why pay for a search engine

To be in the top 1% you would likely need to depend on search on a daily basis for your livelihood. As a reminder the Starter plan is USD $5/month with 300 searches included.

99% of people search less than 10 times a day with loading the next page counting as a search. That's interesting and hard to accept but might be true with many living in apps and wall gardens like facebook. I wonder what the mode number is for those 99%. 1 or 2 searches a day.

>99% of people search less than 10 times a day with loading the next page counting as a search.

that's pretty crazy to hear. Especially since on this day alone, a weekend, I seem to have 20 unique searches. I can easily hit triple digits a day when researching for a project or on the job. Search is invaluable to me.

What sort of job relies on internet searches? I’m not trying to be rude or anything like that at all, I’m genuinely curious.

I’m a technical writer. I use Kagi dozens of times a day for research. I particularly like custom lenses where I can limit search results to a client’s site, their existing documentation, related standards and regulations, etc. Plus, I can exclude competitor sites and other results I don’t want to see.

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/lenses.html

I do wish they’d increase the number of domains allowed in custom lenses and the number of lenses you can create.