This year has been extraordinary for Kagi ( https://kagi.com ).

Kagi is a paid alternative to ad-supported search engines like Google and DuckDuckGo. It has recently revised its pricing model, reducing the cost for a plan with unmetered searches from $25 per month to $10.

Kagi boasts the following (and more) features:

  • Blocking or boosting specific domains in your search results
  • “Lenses”, which are individual setting profiles (e.g. region locks, domain whitelists) that can be applied to search queries
  • All of the Bangs that DuckDuckGo has (e.g. type “!yt” in front of your query to immediately search on youtube.com)
  • Universal Summarizer, which works with any website, PDF document, YouTube video and more

This blog post goes into full details about Kagi’s capabilities.

    • ripcord@kbin.social
      101·
      1 year ago

      I just do searches like maybe 4 times a day on average. And i’m by no means poor but even $60/year seems a bit much.

      Edit:. Eh, i went ahead and subscribed, we’ll see how it goes. Initially tests were pretty good.

    • whynotzoidberg@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      IMO, a search engine costing similar as a streaming service just feels expensive. Makes me want to see a cost breakdown.

      I’m hopeful that this price reduction means they are reaching critical masses to make their product more cost effective. I like the idea of it a lot.