Open option for exhaustive search

Pimienta

Author of https://funredes.org/RockInternetBlues, a critic of how Google have rotten the Internet with its ad based business model, I welcome the emergence of the first Search Engine with a pay for service business model and I appreciate most of its parameters, compatible with a knowledge-minded vision of the Web. However I am quite frustrated by your decision to reduce the results to a quite small number of selected webpages. Many professionals (and researchers) do use Search Engine for exhaustive searches around specific themes and are ready to go thru hundred of webpages to draw a complete picture of their field of interest, even if that means days of work. Your current service totally prevents those type of searches. You should consider, at least as an option, the possibility of "exhaustive search" which, combined with your outstanding filtering posibilities, non redundant and ad-free results, would be a key strategic advantage compare to Google and the rest of search engines market and help the switch towards paying service instead of paid by surveillance no really free services.

Just another search option "exhaustive search".

Vlad

Pimienta Thank you and welcome! I've read the paper and referenced articles and glad to see similar ideas to ours being produced totally independently on the other side of the globe.

However I am quite frustrated by your decision to reduce the results to a quite small number of selected webpages.

This decision is based on economic factors primarly. Every 'page' of results costs extra money to produce. So we have to run a careful balance to be able to offer unlimited search for as low as $10/mo.

Note also that a typical page of results in Kagi will have an average of 30-40 results, so a Kagi user will see 3-4 'pages' of Google results by default in a single Kagi search.

Finally, our goal is to show what the user searches for in top 3 results so they spend the least possible time on Kagi. If what they search for is not in the first page on Kagi then a better next step would likely be to tweak the query.

Pimienta

I appreciate you took the time to answer and your argument is solid as it relates to the rentability of the service. Maybe you could still consider opening this option with a price list carefully computed... and hoping it is not a discouraging price. Anyway, congrats for the so necessary attempt to provide a sane alternative to the current model where users believe they are searching when it facts their personal data is the real subject of the search and the motor of the business.

Vlad

Pimienta Thanks, I appreciate the feedback.