Thanks for posting this, I've been curious about what counts as a search to Kagi. On one hand, I get it: making requests obviously costs them money, and they certainly don't owe me anything as a non-user anyway. But I'm even less likely to switch to it with this knowledge, because this just doesn't fit well with how I search for things. It doesn't jive with the mental model of what I would think of as a search in my head as an end user, where changing the actual search terms is obviously a new search, but filtering, reloading, viewing the next page, etc, are just part of the same search.