On Sat, Sep 14, 2024 at 6:10 AM Richard Owlett <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 09/14/2024 07:23 AM, Daniel Hückmann wrote: > > Kagi. It's $5 - $10 a month, but you aren't the product. I switched last > > year and never looked back. > > I'm not opposed to a search engine being ad supported. > the problem with that is that supporting a service purely from ad revenue is no longer possible. the only reason that ever worked was by taking advantage of weaknesses in user understanding of how web pages worked. they made ads look just like search results so people would click on them unintentionally. as the general populace has grown wiser to tricks like this, they fall for it less, to the point where it now costs more to run the ad network than they make from it. the only way to avoid charging for a service is by selling your data. it's so lucrative that there is more money to be made from it than by charging for a service directly. > > In any case their homepage is so disgusting that I'll not consider them. > Reminds me of old hamburger ad "Where's the beef". Its all their version > of visual "glitz" - without content. > judging a book by its cover. disregarding a direct report of personal experience. site design is right in line with current design trends. -wes
