Kagi is proxying to Google (through SerpApi), Bing and Yandex among others so they have actually high costs. I think the thing they're wondering above is how much it actually costs to process a search without the adversarial relationship with the search company.

> If you want Google results, SerpApi gives 5000 searches for $75. They are not pay-as-you-go, and more searches give you better pricing. Probably if you're setting this up for your whole company you can get a pretty good deal.

Oh wow that's quite expensive, when I tried to create a similar API to resell google search results I was able to sell 15k requests with $34(and this was the lowest plan with the most expensive price for 1k), with a profit margin of about 70-80%, that was about 2 years ago tho, so maybe now it's much harder, but the price still seems insane. Unfortunately didn't got much traction and I stopped working on it after a few months, since it required a lot of maintenance.

I’m building dowse.dev, which queries several search engines and reranks the combined results for AI agents. Which types of queries have you found Kagi handles better than Brave? Would be interesting to try the same searches on Dowse.

By whom? With what evidence?

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