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What's your opinion? Does google really "not work" anymore? Are there any better search engines? Why did the quality of search results go down? I honestly stumbled onto this question through this music video, what is ironic in it's own way i feel...

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[-] RoboRay@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You're not limited to a set amount of searches if you pick a cheaper Kagi plan... the plan is just for how many are pre-paid. You'd have to do six times the pre-paid number of searches on the $5 plan to get billed $25, so there's no point in paying $25 monthly unless you're actually doing thousands of searches every month.

But either way, there is no limit.

[-] Lowbird@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Idk, that might even be worse imo. I don't want to go back to the days of surprise bills like you'd get because you went over your alotted minutes/texts/GBs, or to have to think about whether or not a particular search is worth $.

[-] RoboRay@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The typical surprise bill would still be a lot less than your monthly payment for the infinite searches option. You probably aren't going to unknowingly perform several thousand more searches than you normally do without noticing it.

Anyway, your other option is to scroll through infinite ads trying to find the few actual search results.

Pick your poison.

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago

You can set a price point you get a notification, and another price point where there's a hard cap. So I've started on the $5 a month plan which is 300 searches plus 1.5c per additional search. Then I set a $5 limit on the extra searches, so I'll never be billed more than $10.

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