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Search has a cost. You can either pay for your searches and own your results or have someone else, a complete stranger, pay for your searches and have the results be in their best interest.

Also check: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/plans/why-pay-for-search.html

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I think it was Mark Twain who said about Web 2.0, "In every transaction where money changes hands there is a buyer, a seller, and a product. If you are not the buyer or the seller, then you are the product."

Unfortunately usually you are the buyer and the product these days even when companies say otherwise (e.g. Apple)

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