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Comment by ainiriand | Hacker News Reader

It is a bit hard to evaluate the potential when you need to top up and do a captcha just for evaluation purposes. The barrier of entry is quite high.

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To be clear, you don't need to top up (only click the link or try a search) _and_ do the captcha. You can _either_ top up for a month, _or_ do the proof-of-work captcha (should just be clicking a checkbox and giving it a few seconds).

The reason for the higher barrier of entry is bots/abuse. Up until a few weeks ago we didn't even have the captcha option. Without any kind of identification, it's impossible to prevent automated/bot signups, and they can abuse the system to oblivion.

I understand that's not ideal, though I hope it still makes sense!

I'm not making a freaking account before I can even run a single search.

As far as I can tell, Kagi also requires you to create an account before you can try it out. You can of course disagree with that practice, but it is not like Uruky is requiring something far out of the ordinary.

To create an account you only need to click a link (so the account number can be randomly generated for you), not provide any information. I understand if that's not good enough for you, though.

You may want to clarify that in your FAQ, which states this in the very first entry:

> Unfortunately, due to the fact it's too costly to properly avoid bots and other automated tools from abusing our service, we don't offer a free trial.

Argh, stale docs! Thanks for the notice, I'll push that fix in the next update later today (currently in the middle of adding an optional date filter).

This search: https://uruky.com/search?il=en&it=system&q=php+array+search Produced the same results for the first 2 items, only that one is separated with dash '-' and the other with underscore '_' in the result slug. Perhaps that can be normalized.

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