It would mean that if they are operating at a loss and hoping to capture more of the market later. But if they're profitable then the main danger is a competitor coming along.

Growth mindset is a big part of our sick society, unfortunately. It's the only thing our politicians like to talk about, after all. Being a stable business delivering value is as good as dead.

Kagi is the only paid search engine and they are already profitable: https://blog.kagi.com/what-is-next-for-kagi

I think the bigger danger is the competition around AI chat assistants. There are other paid assistants, but you already see that even the paid assistants are getting trained to promote certain corporations.

Kagi were an early adopter of LLMs. You can use Kagi assistant for AI needs.

Kagi Assistant is awesome. It uses their search for context. I got a free year of Perplexity and liked Kagi better.

Bing Chat (chatgpt without login) has replaced more than 80% of my searches. Still with kagi for the remaining 20% but if my searches run out I probably use duck again for those

Because devs (or maybe just web devs?) will be replaced by AI soon, I guess.

edit I do not agree with this, but this is what i assume OP was referring to? Because right now web devs is a quite populous and active crowd.

Someone still has to write the prompts though, someone who knows what he is doing.