I apologize if this is old news, but I just noticed it. It looks like Kagi has added Fediverse Forums as a default Web search option.

  • douglasg14b@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    18 hours ago

    $10/m is unlimited searches though…

    And yeah, searches are actually quite expensive. There’s a LOT of infrastructure that goes into making something unique with your own search engine that isn’t just a wrapper over Google.

    The actual compute cost per search, in 2024, was $0.0125. Kagi states they want to keep Costa below $0.015 per search, but their search partners are a major expense.

    That ofc ignores all the supporting infra, devs, support…etc that goes into making it all possible.

    • MisterFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      18 hours ago

      The business model just doesn’t make sense then (using search partners).

      Because $60, let alone $120 US, a year is far more than most people would be willing to pay.

      Dunno what to say, it’s just more than most people can justify paying for the service.

      I’m gonna stick with DuckDuckGo and the newly free mullvad cached search