I would pay $10/month, maybe even a lot more for a search engine that learned my interests. Fore example, if I say 'spring', I am not interested in soap, or perfume, or early season vacations. Or if it finds a match in a forum, it discounts posts that have no follow on. My list is quite long, but I could see paying $100/month if it saves me a few hours per month.
I know searching the site is something I want to do constantly. I would offer some sort of pay-for-search credits system or a membership $5-7 per month that simply lets me search.
Honestly, I'd say around $2-5. It's not that I wouldn't value better quality search but in a world where search feels like an almost 'invisible' part of browsing the web I'd struggle to pay that much. I guess it's comparable to what I feel is a price I'd be willing to pay for a VPN say compared to a coffee subscription.
This also isn't a reflection of what I percieve the work in building a search engine to be but more my subconcious perception of what I'm getting.
There’s a huge difference between what I’d be willing to pay for a good search engine and how much I feel should be charged amid competition (and cost to provide). Existing search engines are good enough for most purposes, but if there was a good enough alternative I’d be willing to pay a pretty substantial markup (and if google continues getting worse or the search engine gets better…)
10-20$ a month for a meaningfully better search engine is pennies compared to the possible value it could provide (if it provides search results of sufficient quality). Every search I have to spend a couple minutes refining saved would make it worth it.
Search based on content type, content language, with/without keywords, author. Honestly, if Google just put out #5 and charged for it, it'd be worth $10 a month to me.
This appears to be a search engine that will be paid at some nebulous future time. That would be okay, but the price point is around 10 dollars per month. That is very very high - so depending on whether or not you could miss such an amount you may not want to start depending on it.
Hmm. I do about 200 searches a day on Google, so that would be $92/month.
I'd pay for the service if all search engines charged that much, because search is so useful. But in that world, I'd be more cautious about searching casually, for the same reason I limited online time back when the main cost was per-minute dialup phone bill. (Not in the USA.)
I don't like the ads on Google, but unlimited casual searches any time of day is very appealing.
What I really want is biased search results of my choosing.
$10 a month for a personal search is a bit much. $10 a month for work related search is cheap. Give me results specific to my industry without having a super long query.
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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