• DevopsPalmer@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        It sounds like what the picture is making fun of, already materialized in this kagi search engine. Paying for a search just is a about face from what the Internet was designed to be. You could argue everything is this way, but I’d then argue consumers are bigger pushovers now.

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          1 year ago

          Everyone pays for search. You do it through attention/data traded to advertisers or currency.

          If Kagi is functionally better than Google and respects my privacy, I would not mind paying for it.

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          1 year ago

          Yet it would be interesting to hear, why this shocks you so much. :)

          Is it because you don’t think search engines are a service worth paying for or because Google, Bing, DDG … are free?

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              I’m not sure if this is really feasible (even though I’d be happy to see a working libre search engine). The problem I see is that a search engine is incredibly expensive to run, which makes it hard to maintain servers on a donation model.