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I live in a country which uses a language I don't speak but Google defaults to regional results in spite of my language being set to English. All other engines give me really poor results (not that Google was giving good ones, the image search has really gone to shit since they started populating it with AI stuff).

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[–] cadeje@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can completely get behind paying for a service if that means the service works and is better than all the other ones. I'll at least try it out. Personally, I'd probably prefer if I could pay for a certain number of searches (like pay for a 1000 searches with 20 bucks) instead of the subscription model. I'm glad that there's an ad-free search service though.

[–] dax@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

They were working toward adding some billing flavors like that but it's unclear if it was like a prepaid cellphone or just a "for a sub you get X minutes a month" kinda deal (continuing the analogy). I'm grandfathered into the infinite searches that I've never used all that much of so I haven't really paid any serious attention to it, just kinda peripherally somewhat-aware :)