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tmikaeld · 2021-12-02 02:45:38

No way I'm going to pay 10$/mo for search cleaning (they're just a search proxy), if it was reasonably priced at something like 1$/mo I'd consider it.

ntoskrnl | karma 1028 | avg karma 5.04 · | 2022-06-01 21:04:55

They've already brought it down a lot, the original plan was to charge $30/mo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30213110

If it really costs them $1 for 80 searches, I don't see how they can bring it much lower. $10 feels like the sweet spot for me.

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corobo | karma 8116 | avg karma 2.43 · | 2023-02-27 07:12:52

Yeah for my search traffic alone that feels like it'd be a $4/mo service

tandr | karma 400 | avg karma 1.19 · | 2022-06-10 13:06:51

$1-2 per month would be worth it for me. But $10 per month just for search - no, it is not, sorry.

Nextgrid | karma 26661 | avg karma 2.96 · | 2022-01-07 03:11:36

For purely search, 10$ is about the max I would pay.

For a full equivalent to Google's services including Maps, Docs, Drive, etc, I'd be happy to go much higher up to 50$.

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iso1631 | karma 5532 | avg karma 1.87 · | 2022-12-08 14:30:19

If it's a good result I'm sure there are many people that would pay 1c per search. I've made 16 searches today, far less for stuff I didn't find with ddg. If I was after something specific I could charge my account with $5 and search away.

geysersam | karma 2044 | avg karma 2.01 · | 2023-04-24 00:09:22

Why do you think their prices are unreasonable? Just curious.

1.5 cents per search doesn't sound expensive, although if you do 100 searches per day that's $45 per month...

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sorwin | karma 77 | avg karma 1.31 · | 2023-03-09 03:26:50

With 1k-2k searches a month, $10 seemed reasonable. However, $25 does not - it's far too much of a price increase. Most people here can already get same quality results from google with an ad blocker. I get that the service costs money, but for an end user, it's not really justifiable.

shmoe | karma 168 | avg karma 1.03 · | 2023-01-28 21:06:06

Man I really want to but $10 a month seems like such alot for search..

goda90 | karma 3699 | avg karma 3.38 · | 2022-06-10 08:53:33

Yeah, $10 is steep, but I feel like I'd be happy with a bundle deal. Search, reliable email, a small bit of storage, and other small services for $20 or $30. I'm sure I'm underestimating how much I use search, but it just doesn't feel like an essential part of my life that I'd want to pay that much.

LordAtlas | karma 4037 | avg karma 10.35 · | 2022-03-20 09:45:25

And they also intend to charge $10 per month (and that's just for 20 searches per day, which is a WTF low number). There's no way I'm paying that kind of money.

Closi | karma 8474 | avg karma 3.3 · | 2022-02-15 13:38:46

Their pricing is closer to $30 a month if you are searching more than a handful of times per day.

At $10 a month you have to pay per search if you search over 20 times per day or something.

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RyanHolliday | karma 95 | avg karma 2.97 · | 2010-12-23 09:54:30

I don't know that the $1-$2 price point is really the important thing. I have no idea if a search engine would make a profit at that price point.

There's no product as of now. I have no idea about storing the terabytes of data, or data visualization, or filtering. I'm not qualified to solve most of those problems. I'm just curious if anyone feels that this kind of search would be worth paying for.

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Supermancho | karma 3343 | avg karma 1.3 · | 2023-10-11 21:19:41

A superior solution that's 2/mo or 20/yr would be something I would go for, given my income. I would not expect anyone I know to go for a search engine that charges 10/mo.

cmeacham98 | karma 5725 | avg karma 4.47 · | 2022-12-25 12:31:00

I took a look, but I am _very_ worried they will drop my account for (as their ToS puts it) "our provision of the Services to you is no longer commercially viable".

It allegedly costs them $1 for every 80 searches. On the 5 days of the week I do my day job I probably average 60-80 searches per day.

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BeetleB | karma 12033 | avg karma 2.34 · | 2024-01-16 18:47:42

They used to have a $5/mo option with N searches, and then charge some cents per search after that. For a lot of people, the net amount would still be under $10/mo.

cxf12 | karma 47 | avg karma 1.57 · | 2020-12-19 19:49:50+00:00

They said search was free. It could cost you dearly.

crankylinuxuser | karma 1209 | avg karma 0.79 · | 2018-02-02 00:17:48+00:00

I could certainly see a "search of everything by user" be very much worth a $1 for groups like intelligence agencies or background check companies.

That cost is then passed back on to the requester.

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lumost | karma 9692 | avg karma 3.34 · | 2022-06-01 22:21:29

Initial searches look promising, but the proposed costs are vastly too high. In my google history I can easily hit 100 searches per day. If I'm researching something this can hit 1k+ per day.

I'd gladly pay 5/month for search, and 10/month in a stretch. But 300 per month is a non-starter.

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