Yeah I got my invite last week. But between the time it was announced and looking into it, I’ve balked and won’t use it.
That said I’m considering self hosting
https://github.com/beeper/self-host
Edge is at least solid. In an environment like work where privacy is nonexistent I use edge. Mainly because I have/work in multiple azure tenants and this allows me to maintain SSO and separation while still easily switching and syncing data. It’s leagues beyond IE.
That said, beyond that very specific use case (but it is a pretty big use case), I really don’t have much use for it.
Correct. You can go lower and pay per search as well. And set a warning and hard stop limit.
I do a LOT of searching for work. So the 1000/month is plenty and use it on all devices.
They have features others don’t as well. Such as blocking certain domains from returning results. For example I filter out answers.Microsoft.com because that’s their question boards and it’s rare that anything useful is said there etc.
They also support custom bangs similar to ddg.
I find that I get better results for my job and faster with Kagi. So it’s worth the cost for me.
You are paying them for the service and the costs to make a custom search engine. The only thing they keep track of is the number of times you queried the service. They don’t track queries or even see them. You don’t have a search history and can’t see previous searches because it’s not tracked
There are no ads. They aren’t just proxying your search like DuckDuckGo.
There’s actually a lot of crazy shit you can do with EMF.
Look up Van Eck Phreaking. The theory was developed on CRT monitors but can be used on LCD as well where you use the monitor as a listening device.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking