[pwpw]

A few things rub me the wrong way about this article:

- I didn’t receive an email clearly indicating the pricing changes and pointing to this article. Instead, I found it on hacker news.

- Every paid tier refers to the number of searches it allows as “free” despite requiring payment.

- The wording around existing customers led to me believing that the pricing won’t change until cancelling the current plan (grandfathering). However, once I came to these comments I learned that pricing goes away at the end of the billing cycle and will be switched to a new plan.

- Their words about average internet users’ number of searches feel so disconnected from who their actual users are and is incorrectly framing the conversation. If their goal is to truly expand to being the search that everyone uses, requiring payment will never allow that to happen.

I wish they had invested in building their own crawlers rather than AI and their Kagi browser.

[geoah]

Crawlers over ai would be nice indeed.