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by Hamcha 1025 days ago
Same, I don't buy their metrics because sure, the average person might search 3/4 times per day, but the average person isn't gonna pay for Kagi. A quick glance at the most popular search queries[1] shows a very likely scenario where people type what website they want to go to and then just stay there.

I'm a heavy Google user, to the point that I can't switch to DuckDuckGo because the quality just isn't there, and by exporting and analyzing a month worth of web history I counted 4507 searches (not counting going after the first page, which Kagi counts as a separate search). I don't really see who the standard plan is aimed at.

Sadly the ultimate plan is way too expensive for me, 25$/mo is what an internet plan costs here!

1. Using Google Trends (https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?hl=en-US) gives me: "google" "youtube" "weather" "facebook" "translate" "whatsapp" "amazon" "instagram" ...

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You are not banned from searching after exceeding the quota, this is a common misunderstanding. Instead, each search after the quota is billed at 1.5c

I'm also a very heavy searcher, and at most I've been at 1200 searches in a month. Do you let the browser auto-fill URLs you frequently visit, or do you use the search engine for that?