You are always paying for search. This is just directly and transparent.

Because kagi team is active on lemmy, same for proton and mullvad even apple employees were here reading and analyzing information from tech committees.

I hate the internet

If you use search many times a day, like for work, then it's a much more pleasant and efficient experience. Search results are customizeable, you have a personal blocklist, AI slop farms filtered out, etc. But yeah it's a hard sell for the casual user.