Alternatives to the search placeholder "let's fetch"

seventhwave

I continue to feel a slight misalignement with the sentence "Let's fetch", that acts as a placeholder on the search input field.
I'm not american nor english, but it seems to me that "fetch" it's not a natural/obvious word choice, if you aren't an IT guy.
I work in IT, so we say every day that we "fetch these data" and so on...but what about non-IT users? Are they fine with that?
I think that we could choose an alternative:

no word: this is my preferred choice BUT the UI doesn't feel right for me
the word "Search...", so obvious that don't give mental noise (and pleasant looking)
the word "Find...", quite obvious but less used

For now, I'll vote for 2...ideas?

z64

"Fetch" is intended to be a reference to "playing fetch" with our dog mascot - you throw the ball, and he brings it back. So it's a small interaction with our branding.

We have plans to localize our UI, may be that will help communicate it better?

seventhwave

z64 ah ok I'm from Italy and I didn't know this idiomatic sentence.
Regarding this approach, I'm not sure that sentences about "playing with a dog" will be a good way to communicate your standing...I mean: for your users, Kagi is really serious thing (we pay money for that).
I'd like Doggo too, but: I'd like also to show kagi to my boss, or my senior colleagues. Or other people.
If Kagi will give us shareable searches link (as we're discussing in another thread) I'll very happy if that will gain other paying user to Kagi; but to convince a user to pay for something, I'd perhaps be more serious than more funny.
I also think that brand attachment will be developed with other resources, in particular with clear and simple logos and images (doggo it's too complicated in my opinion..but this is another matter).
Don't misunderstand my approach: obviously I want us to flourish, but I also think that, when money matters, not everyone will be reassured by a funny approach.
My sentences are perhaps too harsh, because you've a shared common approach that I don't want to criticize...but it's only my little help from abroad

buteo

seventhwave speaking as someone who "got" the reference , I still feel it is fairly subtle. (Until this thread, I am not sure I even paid much attention to it.) Compared to Github with their many Octocat themes, the bizarre cartoony art of Neeva and many others, Kagi seems really "low key" about this and you barely notice it is there except when signing up or digging through the pages about Kagi the company.

seventhwave

buteo as I said before, I think that we're mixing two different context here.
GitHub is squarely in the same space as my first post: is a technical resource for IT guys.
But, as I said before, my accountant/lawyer/pharmacist probably doesn't know anything about GH, but uses a search engine.
How about the other engines? What we see not only in Google or Bing, but also in DDG/Brave/Startpage/etc?
I was doing a comparison in our field, and I was writing thinking at them.
And yes, I don't find jokes or animals in them, but PLEASE note that I'm not saying that there's something wrong in any way: I'm only thinking about product placement and users, and trying to help Kagi to succeed.