Recently discovered a search engine thanks another social network (Pjuu). Appears as a premium search engine that take cares privacy. Anyone knows it? I’m trying the free version

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    1 year ago

    How exactly am I the customer if they don’t track me? Do they display ads? How do they cover the costs for this search engine?

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      You are paying them for the service and the costs to make a custom search engine. The only thing they keep track of is the number of times you queried the service. They don’t track queries or even see them. You don’t have a search history and can’t see previous searches because it’s not tracked

      There are no ads. They aren’t just proxying your search like DuckDuckGo.

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        1 year ago

        I see! Thanks for the clarification. I just checked their prices. Looks like you get X searches for a specific price. Not appealing to me but I bet many people are fine with that. I rather prefer a little bit of ads at the top of my search results (which I could block with an adblocker anytime) but that is just my personal preference.

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          Correct. You can go lower and pay per search as well. And set a warning and hard stop limit.

          I do a LOT of searching for work. So the 1000/month is plenty and use it on all devices.

          They have features others don’t as well. Such as blocking certain domains from returning results. For example I filter out answers.Microsoft.com because that’s their question boards and it’s rare that anything useful is said there etc.

          They also support custom bangs similar to ddg.

          I find that I get better results for my job and faster with Kagi. So it’s worth the cost for me.