Google Search as you know it is over (archive.ph)

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[-] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I'm privileged by being able to afford Kagi, it's really night and day. Even just the fact that nobody can buy out a hostile ad to phish me/infect me with malware

[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 16 points 3 days ago

it says like $5/mo for 300 searches or $10/mo for unlimited. do you have an estimate of how many searches you do?

i can imagine wanting unlimited because a single search usually is actually like five searches as i try to refine, my searches are iterative.

also $10/mo feels excessive. my vpn is less than that and i hammer that thing 24-7 on multiple devices, including a seedbox.

[-] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 days ago

I've run out of 300 searches in a few days, so I'm running unlimited now.

[-] bigpharmasutra@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

Good lord what the hell are you doing on the computer that you need 300 separate searches in a few days?

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[-] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago

10$ per month is just a lot for me. Have to stick to duckduckgo

[-] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 days ago

That works too

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago

I don't want to encourage pay-to-use websites but then again - if Google's new search is as bad as it seems - I'll stop using it. Also - I assume google will kill off a great deal of independent news media and replace it greater and greater amounts of AI slop.

[-] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 3 days ago

Ultimately, things have to pay for themselves. A model where you outright pay for the service of search seems to be one of the fairest, bar distributed/community-owned search engines.