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Fellow kagi user here. I have been very happy with the service so far. Switched over to it when they announced their new pricing model a little while ago. It is more than worth the cost. Even without tweaking, the quality of results is far higher than what I had gotten used to getting from DDG or DDG with !g. The ability to rank domains is amazing though.

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Kagi has improved immensely and I no longer ever feel the need to check Google against it. It's a great product that I am more than happy to pay $10/mo

I'm so happy that their new pricing scheme has done away with search quotas. Their claim that the average user does 100 searches a month seems absurdly low. I would blow through my 300 search quota in a few days.

I average about 60/day since the pricing update. Fewer than I expected, but enough to hit the quota in under a week.

Every time I see someone talk about this feature on HN (almost every day) I get jealous, it's such a good idea. When I'm searching (on google) I'm always thinking; when I get Kagi I'm gonna downrank this site, uprank that one etc.

I'm curious, why haven't you switched to Kagi yet?

For me… I don’t want my search tied to my credit card. I go through lengths to keep my digital and analog domains as separate as possible.

> don’t want my search tied to my credit card

Pay with Bitcoin [1].

[1] https://blog.kagi.com/accepting-paypal-bitcoin

Bitcoin is such a bad payment method, even with Lightning network, because you need to buy a volatile asset and payment processors typically charge huge fees to receive BTC payments.

If Kagi supported USDC I would definitely use it.

Could you use a prepaid debit card or is that? And what other search engine do you use and what makes you think they don't know who you are?

I primarily use DuckDuckGo go. I use account containers. I use a VPN.

I’m not letting perfect be the enemy of good.

They don’t keep a record of your searches, so technically your searches aren’t connected to your card.

How subtle is the wink supposed to be in their or your statement?

I didn't mean it in an ironic way if that's what you're referring to. I interpreted your statement to say "I don't want my search history connected to my credit card.", sorry if I misunderstood what you said.

If what you mean is you don't believe they are not connected to your account, I can point you to the FAQ entry on their website.

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/faq/faq.html#what-data-does-kagi-...

Ah, right… Well, if it’s on their website!

Good idea indeed, though you could block some sites (on any search engine) with a browser script

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