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Google's new AI search results promotes sites pushing malware, scams
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They've said that it costs them 1.5 cents to answer a search query, so that dollar a month wouldn't go very far. I probably incidentally run 40-50 searches a day between my devices... $10 is a value that works for me.
I've been using Kagi as my default since June, and don't plan on stopping anytime soon.
That sounds unlikely... But they're a small search provider with a small customer base, so costs will be high maintaining all the infrastructure needed.
As I linked elsewhere, Bing makes ~$10 per user per year. That's really close to my $1/month figure. And that's revenue, which doesn't count advertiser acquisition costs and whatnot.
I'm unwilling to pay $5/month for limited searches, but I'm willing to pay for search if it's reasonable.