[caddy]

Agreed, the quality has slipped somewhat but I do believe the choice was in part due to the way cheaper offering by Brave, as after the change (or with it), they brought back $10/mo unlimited. Looking at brave's pricing, they do it based on reqs/sec + limit/month and it's way cheaper ($5/mo sub = 20mil searches, $0.00000025 a search if maxing it out) - This is based on the data for AI plan which is $5/mo rather than $3/mo as Kagi does run some AI stuff atop the results [1].

I feel I've seen more AI Spam recently although when I do I've just ended up downvoting the site immediately, and that has generally fixed the issues as there seems to be a few repeat offenders. That could totally be up to the Kagi postprocessing being tweaked though.

[1] https://brave.com/search/api/

[jsnell]

I'm pretty sure you're misreading the pricing by multiple orders of magnitude. It is $5/1K queries ($5 CPM), not $5/20M queries.

[caddy]

Oh my, I did think the pricing was a little out of whack. Thanks for the correction.