Kagi is the next “we got you” corpo that use “virtue signaling” to bring left-sided customers.
Open-source something something, we value your privacy something something, come here, it’s better than the alternative, something something… Do be Evil, haha!
Same pattern, same pattern. Then, the next day:
“We are so excited to announce we are raising our prices and we are changing on privacy policy to protect you BETTER”.
From there, do you recognize the song? I do.
As with some of the comments on that post, I don’t find the author of your linked post, nor the ‘lori’ who wrote the post they refer to make a terribly compelling argument of why people should not use Kagi.
because they fund homophobia via brave
As much as I like kagi, a paid search engine is a tough sell for public schools
Fourtunately there are free options that dont habe AI, ads, sponsored content, or steal your data.
SearXNG ftw!
They’re paying for Google too, but they’re using the credit card of their students’ privacy.
You are preaching to the quire. I doubt however that argument flies well with most achools.
Many schools wouldn’t be able to afford Kagi just for their students to search the web though; DDG would be much more viable for that purpose.
Yeah i thought they wrote this article ending with “contact us to get free education tier” but instead it’s an ads for the paid education tier with free trial.
Yeah. They do offer Kagi free for libraries for a year, so I’m curious how much they actually charge for education plans
As far as public education, yeah Kagi doesn’t have the legal and compliance framework to even attempt. You’d also need to provide an alternative to the whole docs/drive/etc ecosystem.
For like colleges though, I think there’s a more viable path — I can’t see their purely per-seat pricing model working though; and is also the problem I see with their “teams” plan. The better way there is to either provide a hybrid and/or totally ala carte pricing model, one where you pay per seat and also get a number of searches added to the whole plan ($3/seat + 250 searches); and another where you don’t have seats and instead just accumulate searches and pay at the end of the month based on your search volume. Otherwise the upfront $10/user seat costs in their current billing are hard to justify.
i saw the initial news and thought what am opportunity… Kagi didn’t waste any time.
i dont know that they made the deal hood enough. or made the argument early enough in that novel… but good for them.
