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Are you one of the devs? If so, you should

1. Make it more obvious there is a free trial.
2. Reconsider the free trial plan, imho. Personally, I will never decide in a couple hour if I might want to use any new tool. This takes time even more so changing something as intimate as a search engine. Heck, it took me quite a few months of intensive testing and consideration before I decided to move away from MS Word to LibreOffice Writer, after 25 years using it ;)

Just so you know: I was a very satisfied paid user of Kagi… but that happened only after I was able to try them for more than a few days and to take my time to actually explore those many features I was thrilled about. Something I can’t and refuse to rush in a few hours. I think Kagi was offering 100 or maybe 300 searches for free, I can’t recall the number, but even that was not enough and I had to contact them.

I really enjoyed using their engine and, as a EU-citizen, I would more than wish to give yours a chance too.

There are a few others, but these ones would be my go to 'the world is not the most important thing happening right now. They’re not all ‘amusing’ but they’re all great to get get a better taste in the mouth (and in the soul).

• !calvinandhobbes@lemmy.world (edit: the one I would keep if I was allowed to sub to a single community)
• !traditional_art@lemmy.world
• !dull_mens_club@lemmy.world
• !poetry@lemmy.world
• !typewriters@lemmy.cafe
• !thefarside@sh.itjust.works
• !goodnewseveryone@piefed.social
• !vampires@lemmy.zip
• !books@lemmy.world
• !urbanism@slrpnk.net
• !visualarts@lemmy.dbzer0.com
• !desire_paths@sh.itjust.works
• !publictransport@slrpnk.net
• !diy@slrpnk.net
• !journaling@sh.itjust.works and the selected few other communities linked in the sidebar (disclaimer: I’m the admin there ;)

Those communities don’t post too much so it doesn’t bother me to stay subscribed to all of them (plus a few more) since my feed never feels saturated. Even less that my feed only shows ‘subscribed’.