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I remember being so excited about the search engine Neeva because they seemed to be building a full fledge independent web index with top notch talent, I was really bought into the idea of a premium new search experience that I could pay for (no ads) and revenue share some kinds of content. But years later they focused on crypto and AI instead, and I always find myself just googling it because I have ad block and the results are more relevant, sigh

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There also is kagi.com which should fit all the requirements you described.

Their new pricing is quite unaffordable now :(

It's really bad. For years I've been saying that I want someone to make a search engine where I am the customer and that I am happy to pay. Now kagi is here and I am to cheap to pay for it. I feel called out.

FWIW, they are not the only one where you can pay to be a customer, they just happen to think that paying-per-search is the strategy they want to go with. I also just double-checked and they do actually offer an all-you-can-eat for $25/mo and $255 if you pay annually

Now, the bad news is there is an associated discussion going on over in the "DDG integrates GPT" thread where the intersection of "I want to pay" and "I don't want to GPT anything" is damn near nil :-(

Such a bad name though. Try telling hour friends about kagi. They'll type "kaggy". Maybe it'll be popular in Japan?

FWIW Googling "kaggy search" has "Did you mean: kagi search" at the top and kagi.com as the second hit.

How would they type 'google' 25 years ago?

Per their website, they still seem to focus on ad-less search. What am I missing?

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