This is a very low-information announcement here but if this is taken to the extreme, it means that DuckDuckGo, Qwant, and many other so-called “alternative” search engines are going to either have to look for a new provider of results, or die.

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      18 天前

      Yeah I’m far too used to getting my search for free to pay for it. I’ll fuckin’ use chatgpt before I pay a subscription fee for that shit, even if it is a substantially better option.

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        18 天前

        That’s what I said before I used it, you can try it free for 30 days

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          18 天前

          I looked at it briefly, the only free option I saw was 100 free searches, which will not last your average user anywhere near 30 days. Shit that might not last me 3 days depending on what I’m doing.

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          17 天前

          This is why tech communities suck.

          Too many shills and useful idiots trying to viral market bullshit.

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        17 天前

        Answers still Kagi. You get use of the basic tiers for all the big ai services.

        You ever wanted to blacklist Quora from search results? You can do that too.

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          17 天前

          Not unless you have some way to get me a free lifetime membership, cause I’ve already made it pretty clear I’m not paying for it, and it wouldn’t even let me use it without making an account when I checked it out.

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              It’s less that I’m unhappy with the answer and more that I’m confused about why you would give an answer that I’ve already said I won’t use. But if screaming into the void is your jam then you do you.