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New Kagi user here too, been very happy so far. Though it turns out I do a lot of searching and blew through the 300 searches in the $5 plan in like 2 weeks...
Make an effort to use bangs and I bet you'll stay under the limit. Edit: bang searches don't count towards the limit
Knowing I wanted a result from a certain site but using the search engine to get there was a (bad) habit I brought over from Google.
!imdb barbie
!w mattel
There's even custom bangs, which is something DDG doesn't give you: !libgen some book
@Byter
DDG claims 13.5k existing bangs, and here's a form to add a new one https://duckduckgo.com/newbang
@SoftestVoid
But they don't allow bangs for sites that do illegal things like copyright infringement. Libgen was my example.
@Byter allowing illegal stuff *and* taking money doesn't bode that well for their longevity.
Custom bangs are private to the user. It's not dissimilar to saving a bookmark in your browser, except your bookmarks are hosted by someone else.
It doesn't have to be about legality either. Maybe you like a service that is being protested by DDG for whatever reason.
I just signed up with them, too. They were able to get me a link to the age of a small, nondescript lava flow near my town on the third hit. (5000 years old! A youngster!) All the other search engines gave me unrelated crap.
I have a hard stop set up for when I hit $10, so I'll switch tiers if it comes to that. 😅
I don't necessarily like paying for search, but I couldn't take ad-driven search any longer. Big waste of time getting through the chaff.