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this post was submitted on 27 May 2026
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It doesn't and when you discover that, try Kagi.
People here love things to be free and in doing so, they recommend worse search engines.
Is the search engine open source? Is it self-hostable? If the a answer to both questions, especially the first is no, then it can be easly ignored tbh, and Kagi is also paid so it's really a bad suggestion (unless you mention it), people ain't gonna switch from free to paid that easly.
I have to pay someone and then hope that they don't sell my data? Hell nah;
Before you say anything releated to DDG: no, i am not saying you should choose DDG, that it's the better decision, the next best search engine, what i said is unreleated to DDG specifically
Well, I think its different for different users, with different economy and different motivations.
Kagi has 70000 paying members, enough to be profitable without any ads or tracking. Since the results are literally Googles results but without ads, AI results or tracking, it's worth paying for for some people who can.
Ive been a paying member since 2023 and I feel good about supporting alternatives to Google with some lunch money. :) Because of me and the other users, there is a quality search engine that makes us happy and makes a profit without ads.
But we are all different. When I was a teenager I wouldn't have paid for this. Had no money and wanted my money for other things.
Next time i suggest to at least mention that kagi is paid, i say it mainly because many users will not catch that immediatly (me included, i understood it only after i made the account, and only because i saw the max querys i could do or smth else i don't remember rn) so you avoid to waste people's time that aren't interessed, i see many people that don't mention it but i think it's essential