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@kagihq is it worth paying for search though? I don’t really see the advantages still.

@jglypt We make the case for it here:

help.kagi.com/kagi/why-kagi/wh

But if you're not convinced, what would make this page more compelling?

You can also check out all the customizable features that come with using paid search - if you navigate to "Search Features" under User Guide in the sidebar.

help.kagi.comThe real cost of "free" search | Kagi's DocsKagi Search Help

@jglypt @kagihq I've been using Kagi for about a year now, and I can honestly say it's most definitely worth paying for search if you use the internet for anything more than extreme casual 'I just look at facebook' use. Extremely happy with Kagi! (although I'm still waiting for that t-shirt to be delivered!)

@alanb Thank you, Alan! And that shirt is slowly but surely making its way over to you ✈️

@kagihq @alanb which t-shirt? Should that also come to me?

@ringods @kagihq Early subscribers had the opportunity to get a t-shirt a few months ago.

@jglypt @kagihq

It depends on your needs honestly. There's a 100 searches free trial I'd recommend you just try yourself if Kagi looks at all interesting to you. It lasted about a week with my usage which was more than enough time to convince me.

@jglypt @kagihq IMO it depends on how often you search and how much you'd benefit from Kagi's features.
For example, Kagi has ranking customizations, lenses, and a really good spam filter. This lets me pull up the documentation for a random API in ~5 seconds compared to ~25 seconds on Google or Bing.
This isn't a big deal to most people, but it saves me a lot of sanity when I have a line of 20 students who want my help debugging their data analysis code because I don't have to awkwardly pause for 30 seconds to find the actual documentation for some R package in a sea of Medium posts.

@jglypt
Yes, paid search is most definitely worth it. I’m in my second month. I’ll never go back.
@kagihq

@jglypt @kagihq it's probably harder to justify for certain people, but for me it's 100% worth it.
I'm saving a lot of time and headache thx to Kagi

@jglypt @kagihq I've been a subscriber for about 12 months and I mostly don't think about search at all anymore, in the same way that nobody thought about search much back when Google was prioritizing quality rather than profit.

I'm not sure about Kagi, the company, and the people behind it, but right now the search product is definitely worth it.

@jglypt @kagihq I have some bad news: you pay for search, just not with money. Maybe giving away your data is in fact a good deal, problem is you can't know, because you don't know what data ends up where. $20 is $20, take it or leave it.