I used their Programmable Search Engine (which doesn't have this 10k/day limit, but instead is client-side with other limitations), but the moment my Google-approved-non-profit was about to receive its first AdSense payout that would be donated to other charities, then they not only banned my AdSense account, but they also went a step further to ban my Programmable Search Engine account.. I have no idea why since it's impossible to get in touch with a human.
But Kagi.com uses Google (+ Bing), they almost certainly have over 10k queries/day
because they actually think they have a shot at being a contender as a search engine.
I thought Bing and AI would be different, but this feels like a classic Microsoft ecosystem fuck-up.
This price increase of 3.5 to 10 times the original amount is unacceptable and not justified.
Also worth noting that Bing doesn't allow small websites access the Microsoft Advertising network to help offset the cost. I've been told by a kind stranger that you need at least 10k searches per day to get access, that's $7500/month you now need to pay before you can even begin to monetize your service (and you'll probably spend tens of thousands before you reach the threshold). No idea how much you can expect to earn per 1000 searches with Microsoft Advertising if you're lucky/influential enough to get access, but I doubt it's much more than $25.
The same can be said for GPT wrappers like Jasper - the business equivalents of a mirage.
After passing 1M requests/day, $5 per search is pretty steep. I guess this is a way of ensuring that their own 1st party traffic is prioritized.
