{"id":3003,"date":"2026-02-07T16:38:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T08:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gergely.imreh.net\/blog\/?p=3003"},"modified":"2026-02-07T16:38:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T08:38:21","slug":"how-to-think-differently-when-internet-searches-are-metered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gergely.imreh.net\/blog\/2026\/02\/how-to-think-differently-when-internet-searches-are-metered\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Think Differently When Internet Searches Are Metered"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A few months ago I&#8217;ve tried to up to <a href=\"https:\/\/kagi.com\">Kagi<\/a>, a subscription-based search engine, that I heard a lot of good stuff of. Since I was in a country where their payment system didn&#8217;t work yet, I couldn&#8217;t actually complete the signup. They&#8217;ve generously given a Starter plan me for free while their system was being sorted out (nice, thank you!), however that plan comes with a &#8220;300 search per month&#8221; limit &#8212; which I&#8217;ve quickly seen to really matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was around a time when I had a new laptop, and been trying to get things right installing <a href=\"https:\/\/archlinux.org\/\">ArchLinux<\/a>, where both the processes and the hardware changed a lot since I&#8217;ve last had done it in&#8230; 2011-ish. So that involved many queries to the Internet. So much so, that my 300 searches were <em>done<\/em> on the 3rd day or so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So 3 days into a month I already used up my quota, and couldn&#8217;t just upgrade to unlimited (yet), since it was a gift from the Kagi. So what could I do different in the future for a better experience?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Habit Changes<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>What does that better experience really mean? Doing a retrospective of how was I searching, it seemed to me a really mindless, throwaway process:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>plopping in keywords, scrolling quickly around, not really clicking on any link necessarily, but changing the word and re-running the search (total shotgun approach)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>running the same query again and again across days<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>relying on the search engine to get slowly changing or unchanging information<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; and more. I feel like these are the habits from other search engines, where I didn&#8217;t find things, when most pages are &#8220;sponsored&#8221;, when I didn&#8217;t put in effort to check the queries I run just sent them off, and could do because it was &#8220;all you can eat&#8221;, and that made me not really pay attention to the &#8220;taste &amp; flavour&#8221; of the results&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bookmark more &amp; better<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the most obvious idea I had was that since I go to the same pages all the time, why not <em>save<\/em> those links in bookmarks?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I used to bookmark a lot, and organise those bookmarks, etc&#8230; Then I gave it all up, because &#8230; I could just search things? And because organisation wasn&#8217;t that simple either. Which folder does this link go to? Is it under Programming > Languages > Python? Or under Professional Development? Or under Useful Libraries?&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The same perfectionist &#8220;it doesn&#8217;t just need to be bookmarked, it has to be filed away correctly too!&#8221; was really not doing me any good service&#8230; It took a little while to work through this, and just settle on putting every bookmark in a flat hierarchy, and use tagging to help me find them (rather than folders). Difference being, that a single link can have multiple tags, but can exist in only one folder. I do believe that&#8217;s the only scalable way, ever since I was trying to do the other way around (and failing)<sup data-fn=\"f8dd80ed-9269-4d69-810d-90eb92b9ea2d\" class=\"fn\"><a href=\"#f8dd80ed-9269-4d69-810d-90eb92b9ea2d\" id=\"f8dd80ed-9269-4d69-810d-90eb92b9ea2d-link\">1<\/a><\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So bookmark:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>the (book) library catalogues that I borrow books from<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the forums and docs pages of projects I&#8217;m using<sup data-fn=\"481de0c2-87dc-4fe1-bc86-ae6461319aab\" class=\"fn\"><a href=\"#481de0c2-87dc-4fe1-bc86-ae6461319aab\" id=\"481de0c2-87dc-4fe1-bc86-ae6461319aab-link\">2<\/a><\/sup> <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the useful tools available online, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/\">timezone wrangling<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xe.com\/\">currency conversion<\/a>&#8230;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>blogs, publications, web comics that I frequent&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>and so on&#8230; Now whenever I visit a page, I do stop for a moment and think: could I imagine myself wanting to come back here in the future? If yes, let&#8217;s bookmark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not all perfect, but it&#8217;s more about the tools than the process: Firefox on Android doesn&#8217;t seem to handle the same &#8220;search in bookmarks&#8221; shortcuts, or make it more difficult to do. Oh, well, eventually&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Add custom search engines<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes I the page I want to go to is within a large collection, such as a wiki, or a forum. I know it&#8217;s there, but unsure where exactly. Bookmarks take me to the page, but then I have to use the search as a second step. This can be made a lot more ergonomic in pretty much every current browser by adding custom search engines<sup data-fn=\"32fe7398-0359-4ead-8261-d3f4239af710\" class=\"fn\"><a href=\"#32fe7398-0359-4ead-8261-d3f4239af710\" id=\"32fe7398-0359-4ead-8261-d3f4239af710-link\">3<\/a><\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adding Wikipedia&#8217;s search? It might already be there. Adding ArchLinux Wiki? It takes 15 seconds to do, and I have a shortcut to so much Linux system admin knowledge that is riddiculous. Whatever site has a search, can be added just as simple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here the kicker is to remember that shortcut (and the fact that I&#8217;ve added that shortcut), but after that, it&#8217;s off to the races.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Change how I search<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>While I was auditing what sort of searches I like to do, one type that stood out was when I was asking for something like &#8220;what&#8217;s the website of this-or-that company or project or organisation?&#8221; More often than not, these are companies, projects, and organisations that are notable enough to be in Wikipedia. Here&#8217;s the new process: search Wikipedia or the company\/project\/organisation and use the link from their page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This also feel more to the point than search for &#8220;&lt;companyname> website&#8221; which is just &#8220;close enough&#8221; in meaning, and will still get me many results, even if the answers should be a single value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is caveated by that for programming \/ open source projects, the better search is probably GitHub \/ GitLab \/ CodeBerg, where they are likely hosted (in decreasing probability, currently), and switch to search engine search when that fails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is aling the lines that if I already know an authoritive source for the information, I should probably go there directly?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Misc<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Bookmarks &amp; custom searches brought down my search count already. One that is more of a housekeeping change is that my browser was reopening pages from my previous session whenever I started it. If I had any Kagi search results open, that just used up another in the quota, and there often there were more than one open&#8230; Setting my browser to start afresh on each time I open it helped with that &#8212; and also helped with me not being distracted every time I open my browser by whatever I was doing last time, as opposed to what I wanted to do <em>now<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What did I Learn?<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that I&#8217;m on a proper paid plan, I will up it to the Professional plan, where searches are not metered. It doesn&#8217;t feel like just a lazy release valve<sup data-fn=\"ab17392b-0fc4-4261-b010-409482095f2b\" class=\"fn\"><a href=\"#ab17392b-0fc4-4261-b010-409482095f2b\" id=\"ab17392b-0fc4-4261-b010-409482095f2b-link\">4<\/a><\/sup>, rather because I don&#8217;t believe this sorts of limit to my access information is productive. &#8220;Limited&#8221; limitations, when there&#8217;s a purpose, can indeed be &#8220;cretive limitations&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I believe that Kagi does a good job, then there&#8217;s no point sticking to the quota; if I don&#8217;t, then why am I using it in the first place, instead of any of the alternatives?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And if I want to use the power of creative limitations, I can always do my own quest with rules like no search, it&#8217;s within my power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do feel that the changes to my thinking due to this experience &#8212; being more deliberate of what am I looking for and thoughful about where might I find them; choosing and rewarding sources I find useful and reliable; using the little gray cells more &#8212; I want to keep and even cultivate. These changes also brought back a more old-school internet vibes (old as in when I bought printed magazines that came with collected links of what you can find on the  World Wide Web, something more tangible and purposeful). I guess I&#8217;m getting old as well. :)<\/p>\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-footnotes\"><li id=\"f8dd80ed-9269-4d69-810d-90eb92b9ea2d\">Tagging also got a big push from and also due to a push from the book <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/22c416f5-4a94-4c7a-add3-5161c9d3a4d7\">Everything is Miscellanious<\/a>. It&#8217;s also why e.g. Gmail was awesome to have tags while other clients were still just doing folders. Fastmail goes even further, lets you choose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastmail.help\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/360058753554-Setting-up-and-using-labels#what\">labels<\/a> (tags) or folders, which is pretty awesome of them. <a href=\"#f8dd80ed-9269-4d69-810d-90eb92b9ea2d-link\" aria-label=\"Jump to footnote reference 1\">\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><li id=\"481de0c2-87dc-4fe1-bc86-ae6461319aab\">Almost every good project has a good forum\/docs, or maybe a good forum\/docs contributes to the project being good? 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