I’m fine paying for a proprietary product if I feel that their business is really about respecting their users and improving their live. And if I feel that I can easily migrate out of the service.
That’s why I decided to test Kagi.com, a paying search engine.
Overall, I’m really happy about it. After a few weeks, I start to realize how other search engine suck and try to advertise contents, not give you what you search.
And about the philosophy? Well, read this https://blog.kagi.com/small-web