• BaroqueInMind@piefed.social
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    16 hours ago

    I consider the people paying to use Kagi, which simply uses Bing indexers included in its search results because there is no way in hell any company can have the infrastructure/resources/money to index the entire internet for the last 30 years other than Google and Microsoft, in the same boat of people who purchased NFT tokens of an image.

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      16 hours ago

      I don’t know what to tell you other than they offer the best search results and AI in the game

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      15 hours ago

      I don’t know man, I’m just paying for a service that works better than the mainstream free alternatives.

      …I really should have sold my NFTs earlier, though.

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      15 hours ago

      That’s a bit of a stretch?

      People who pay for Kagi likely tried the trial and found the results to be far enough better than google/microslop that they are willing to pay for the ongoing service. Or they want to support a business model that isn’t based around the advertising industry, so that someday Kagi can realistically compete with the incumbents. I don’t need to search for things often enough to justify the cost, but I know people who use it for work and consider it to be worth the cost.

      Meanwhile people who bought NFTs thought that they could sell a copy of a digital image for lots of money.

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      16 hours ago

      They don’t track you, but you just need to be logged in to make your searches and just trust them not to collect data

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      14 hours ago

      Does Bing even have an API anymore? I thought they mainly use Brave and Yandex now and some other smaller ones