It's too expensive: I'm not opposed to paying for things, but when I looked at the cost structure, I thought I'd quickly exceed the limits. (Back then it was something absurd like 20 searches a day) For personal use, I personally am a super-miser when it comes to subscriptions and this just is too expensive. It would make more sense as part of bundle of other services that I will use.
(For example, I subscribed to Google Music a few years back, then got addicted to add-free YouTube, so I haven't canceled.)
It was too unreliable: I would use it for 4-5 searches, and it would be ultra-responsive and have a great UI. Then, all of a sudden, on a search it would be ultra-slow and fall back to a horrible UI that made absolutely no sense.
Edit:
Google's AI integration is good enough: Shortly after I switched back to Google, they started adding small AI answers at the top of the search. That's good enough for what I'm looking for.
(For example, I subscribed to Google Music a few years back, then got addicted to add-free YouTube, so I haven't canceled.)
It was too unreliable: I would use it for 4-5 searches, and it would be ultra-responsive and have a great UI. Then, all of a sudden, on a search it would be ultra-slow and fall back to a horrible UI that made absolutely no sense.
Edit:
Google's AI integration is good enough: Shortly after I switched back to Google, they started adding small AI answers at the top of the search. That's good enough for what I'm looking for.