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  • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    ddg does that for free

    $10/mo is also crazy overpriced for a search engine, they’re really not resource intensive at all

    • SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net
      6·
      1 year ago

      ddg relies on Bing so it isn’t really comparable, idk about kagi’s costs but they claim 1.2 cent per search and an average of 700 searches per month (as what they are serving and hence pricing for)

            • GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
              4·
              1 year ago

              I’m going off of personal experience. I’ve used them all for SEO, and I find Kagi’s results and experience better for my own personal use.

                • GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
                  3·
                  1 year ago

                  Not exactly. Mostly what I’m doing with “SEO” is making sure pages show up correctly on each search engine, such as the text previews and what pages come up if you just search for my client’s name. If you don’t format your webpage correctly, it can look pretty bad on some search engines. For Kagi specifically, it seems to pull the appropriate content and text previews from my client’s sites most often, if that makes sense.

                  Since I’m self taught and self employed I don’t do any of the shady things (at least, I hope) that actual SEO community might be doing, and I definitely can’t afford to “pay off” any company to get better results.