Search Engines
www.ioslife.devDespite being a free product, free search engines make a lot of money. Kagi’s Why Pay for Search says that, “In 2022 Google generated USD $224.47 Billion dollars from advertisement revenue while processing approximately 8 Billion searches per day. At 365 days per year this amounts to approximately USD $0.07 revenue per search. If an average user searches 5 times per day, assuming a 30 day month this results in Google generating USD $11 revenue per user per month.
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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
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Kagi user myself. Great experience, worth the $10.
Side note: Your posts feels a bit like self-promotion 🫥
I don’t see how it’s self-promotion if there’s no profit to be made. In my book, it’s no different than someone making a text post here.
I think all of the “drama” in this thread could’ve been solved with me copy and pasting my words into a self post
Yeah, Kagi seems pretty cool so far.
Not trying to self-promote, just looking for feedback on my findings and to see if anyone has other opinions to share around the products
I paid for the $5 subscription with Monero and used an alias email at signup. I like it so far
that’s still only pseudonymity. with SearXNG or even with Duckduckgo, I can just open a new window of my browser with a different IP and be a completely different person. Hell, I can even use a different SearXNG instance and my search query won’t even go through the same server than before. With Kagi, that’s impossible. You must always be logged in your account. Every search you do, could be potentially linked to your account.