Google paid a whopping $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere

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Google paid a whopping $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere
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I happily pay $10 a month for Kagi and it’s freaking great.

I’m never going back to Google.

This feels like google when google was new. I’ve been using the summarizer more and reading the articles I send it to understand how it works. It definitely has its use cases

You pay for a search engine? You have a subscription to a search engine? I'm I understanding that right?

It is a search engine right? My brain is struggling with this.

Is there something about search engines, as opposed to other online services, that makes you expect them to be free?

Personally i find $10 a month to be too expensive, but don't we all pay for search engines in a way? With Google you don't pay directly but with your information and by getting influenced in your behaviour (e.g. to buy something from someone who in return pays google for advertisement).