I guess we all kinda knew that, but it’s always nice to have a study backing your opinions.

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    10 months ago

    Do you find the limited number of searches enough? I’d do it if it were unlimited for $5, but not going to pay $10 for a search engine.

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      10 months ago

      I do 20-30 searches a day at work, so I definitely need to upgrade (annually it’s around 100$ so not bad at all).

      Their Universal Summarizer is awesome too

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      It’s either money or your data. I prefer to pay with money. If enough people do, the price might lower (hopeium) or the competition might increase for the same service, creating better or cheaper services in the same space.

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        Exactly. If you’re not paying, you’re most likely the product being sold.

        People always keep forgetting that Google (or Alphabet) is an ad company, that does tech stuff with its 20% time. Everything they do is geared towards delivering more ads more efficiently.

        This is why I’ve paid for email for years to Fastmail referral link

        Similarly I started paying Kagi for searches, mostly because their results are better than DDG, which I used for years.

        And, like the people I know from infosec, my phone is from Apple. They’re the only company who makes you pay through the nose for the hardware and because of that specifically do everything they can not to know anything about you. (One of the reasons why Siri sucks so bad btw)

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      I thought I’d burn through them but I haven’t had an issue. I use DDG for low hanging fruit but I’m going to stop bothering.

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      Depends. I use search engines a lot as a programmer. I have over 600 so far. But the results have been good. I’m willing to pay for that.

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      9 months ago

      I’m at 243 searches now and it resets in 8 days. Seems to be enough for me.

      I do use bangs quite a bit, so if I need to find a movie I go !imdb the matrix and if I’m looking for a book I can go !gr rando splicer which saves on search credits.