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I pay for Kagi search. This doesn't interest me in the least. They have been breaking down the costs of running their business and justifying their prices, which I'm cool with. If it turns out I'm paying to subsidize this kind of thing, it's not going to work for me anymore.

(I don't mean to say it's bad or anything, just I don't care about it. It's an interesting downside of a paid business model. Google can do whatever because it's all "free" but presumably paying customers care more about not paying for a bunch of stuff they don't want)

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Seems weird as a customer of a search engine to not care about an innovation that's so tightly related to search. The ability to accurately synthesize information is something that will almost definitely be used to improve results and UI of the main search product.

I do not pay for the Kagi search engine, but it is quite obvious to me that this powerful summarizer will greatly help the search engine, which will soon be able to easily index videos, pdfs, books, etc. and extract the most relevant content from it with ease.

Figuring out what a document is about is one of the most central problems in building a search engine. Being able to regurgitate it in a way that makes sense to humans is just a nice benefit.

I don’t know why. Most businesses work on projects that are not strictly related to the core product. Imagine how much cheaper your iPhone would be if you weren’t subsidizing apple car, augmented reality research, etc.

I imagine an iPhone wouldn't exist if its research wasn't subsidized with Macs or iPads earlier.

Im on the opposite site: Currently, I do not use Kagi. Such features would convince me to switch (and therefore, pay).

I also pay for Kagi search and have a usage value of ~55% from what I pay and I'm fine with experiments.

Right, maybe I should have framed my comment a bit differently: this is not core functionality I would pay for.

Experiments are cool and it would be dumb to make suggestions about how they do R&D. I was more reacting to the thought that this would become part of the product offering.

Oof, that inspired me to check and mine's at 17%. I'm fine with experiments, too. (It reminds me of the old Google Labs part of search.)

Would you recommend Kagi search to look up software dev?

Yes.

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