Comment by rpdillon
14 hours ago
I like paying to invest in a new sustainable ecosystem. Using SERP API doesn't feel like that to me. See Brave for a counterexample.
14 hours ago
I like paying to invest in a new sustainable ecosystem. Using SERP API doesn't feel like that to me. See Brave for a counterexample.
My pushback on this idea and your previous comment in this thread is that a search engine is a service being provided to me.
I pay Kagi, they give me search results. It’s not an ecosystem. None of their competitors are all that much of an ecosystem, either.
If Kagi goes out of business tomorrow it’s really not my problem, with the exception of the prorated balance of the subscription.
The only thing that really matters is that running searches in Kagi is a better experience in Kagi than Google or Bing or DuckDuckGo or most of the rest. That’s what makes me pay for it.
I don’t really need to know how the sausage is made (except for the privacy aspect).