Kagi Search Changelog
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Better search results with no ads. Welcome to Kagi (pronounced kah-gee), a paid search engine that gives power back to the user.

In months where you don’t utilize any searches on your plan, we will automatically apply a full credit to your account for that month. This credit will be applied to your next billing cycle, effectively covering your subsequent month’s subscription at no additional cost.

  • Mora@pawb.socialEnglish
    841·
    2 days ago

    It was okay while I was using it. Just a bit pricey. But I stopped using it when they started the whole “EUs GDPR doesn’t apply to us” non-sense. Simply not a company I can trust to handle personal data properly.

    • sanpo@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      26·
      2 days ago

      I also liked the part where they decided they don’t need to pay the VAT.

        • Da Bald Eagul@feddit.nlEnglish
          10·
          2 days ago

          From how I understand it, VAT only applies from a certain amount of revenue, so they didn’t have to pay it before but do now. Could be wrong though

      • Mora@pawb.socialEnglish
        231·
        2 days ago

        This old blog post summarises a lot of pain points: https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html

        Similar to Brave (and more recently Proton) I simply can’t trust them, despite liking the idea of their respective services.

        • Dave@lemmy.nzEnglish
          32·
          1 day ago

          Isn’t this just the path of an immature company?

          There’s a guy who is probably a programmer and he makes a thing, starts trying to sell it. Nothing here stands out as bad intentions, it just makes me think of what it might look like if I tried to start a company (a lot of stumbling).

          Plus the blog post is pretty clear it’s their personal views. They spend a lot of time talking about the AI crap but when using Kagi it seems less intrusive than Google, and you can turn it off.

          I dunno, I’ve seen this blog posted around a few times and there isn’t anything in here that puts me off so long as I treat it as what it is, a subscription for that month, not an investment in the future. If the company goes bankrupt because the CEO spent investors’ money starting a t-shirt company then I’ll just use a different search when they shut down.

          Probably worth noting I use a relay email address not my main one, but I do that for almost everything.

        • madjo@feddit.nlEnglish
          42·
          2 days ago

          After reading that essay I feel a lot more queasy about using Kagi. It’s just that I really despise ads, but I’m willing to put up with it, if the search engine company is more ethical. For the moment I’ve downgraded my account from 10 to 5 bucks a month. I wasn’t using any of the AI features anyway.