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Basically search engines all cost money, but you paying with your personal data with Google vs dollars with Kagi. I've only been testing it a few weeks but I think it's worthwhile. Here's what they say about it: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/why-kagi/why-pay-for-search.html
I understand they cost money, but it really seems like an expensive service, I can understand high operating costs, but 1.5 cents a search is pretty high when you are searching stuff up like 25 times a day. It’s just so expensive when I can go with a non profit like ecosia and get a free search engine that also respects my privacy. And on top of that it plants trees. I imagine kagi has better results but I just can’t see it being worth it.