@lori
The "it works" part is heavily disputed now by a large amount of people, and Kagis search was as good as Googles heyday 20 years ago or so - thats what I read. To pay for a service you deem good is a good idea, I think, as long as it doesn't prey in other ways on you.
@ManniCalavera Honestly even BEFORE I turned around on Kagi and was happily using it, I only found it about on par with vanilla Bing in terms of results. The main benefit was being able to block domains, but I don't actually think the search results themselves are anything to write home about. They're good but not groundbreaking