@gvrooyen I have many thoughts about ad-funded and freemium style models. And economies of scale... I'm not sure what percentage of Google Search's expenses were in generating and updating the index, vs the cost of serving - but a premium-only search service? How does one build critical mass in the user base to fund the work?

Ok, I guess that's also partly a normal gamble in any startup: build it, betting you'll succeed at finding the necessary users, and perhaps skimp on freshness of the long tail, or latency of capturing breaking news, until you can afford it.

I want to look into Kagi some more later. Collecting your personal data is less of an issue when it's purely for personalising, and not largely for better-attention-stealing ads, or constructing time-sucking media feeds.

Should I share some more thoughts on another day? About anything in particular? This was simply my current stream of consciousness.