[desro]

FWIW I've been using Kagi exclusively since Nov 2022, and here's what my monthly usage looks like:

  Apr 2023 - 895
  Mar 2023 - 1047
  Feb 2023 - 650
  Jan 2023 - 603
  Dec 2022 - 1367

Trends much higher when I screw something up on my network!

I have been asking GPT-* a lot of what I would have previously searched for. And there's still a lot of searching `+reddit.com` because they can't seem to solve search.

I pay $10/mo and am grandfathered in as an "early adopter" with 1K searches. I would be willing to pay more because I've been so happy with it. It's simple stuff -- it respects and obeys my double quotes and boolean operators. If my query returns no results, I get no results. No advertisements, period. The ability to pin, raise, lower, or eliminate the rank of domains in your results.

It's just nice to feel a modicum of respect as someone who's been using computers since shortly after they could read.

[keyle]

Yeah. It's just sad that it was what search was, for free, before. This idea that you search for things, and you find them, instead of paid per word shitty articles and ads. Nutty concept in 2023.

At this point, the free options are so bad I'm considering writing my own. It won't do 50% of what the big ones do but it will do it well.

[kalupa]

Was it ever, really, free, though? you and I were never, really, the customer, ultimately

[unshavedyak]

Yea i hate this framing. Nothing is free and we should be wanting to move towards payment ourselves. Yea, i'd prefer "payment" to be the cost of locally running a server, but i'll take what i can get.

The days of believing free is viable for any online service should be long gone. Hell it's difficult to even determine if paying for a service actually protects you from being the product - because often that isn't the case. However free should be a no-brainer these days. There is no free.

[drcongo]

Apparently I've been using Kagi a year longer than that but I can't work out how to find my stats though. I signed up to the Team plan for my company as soon as I saw it was available - before Kagi I couldn't imagine paying for search, now though, I couldn't live without it. It's impossible to overstate how useful a functioning search turns out to be.

[piva00]

I started using Kagi exclusively around the same time, I'm almost exactly on the same boat as you. Interesting to see that even though you seem to have a bit more variance than I do we land around the same range of searches/month:

    Apr 2023  651
    Mar 2023  708
    Feb 2023  613
    Jan 2023  611
    Dec 2022  759

[pbronez]

I’m a bit lower, but it’s also very consistent. Pretty interesting to see!

Apr 2023 343 Mar 2023 463 Feb 2023 450 Jan 2023 448 Dec 2022 493 Nov 2022 469