Paying for Search Engines
The cluster centers on debates about whether users would pay subscription fees or per-search costs for ad-free or premium search engines like Google or Kagi, including discussions on operational costs and viability without ads.
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Would you pay for that search engine?
Are you willing to pay to use a search engine? How much?
Would my life be that much worse if I paid 10 bucks a month for google search?
nope! they have lots of money, they dont need more. seeing as this would be electronic payment, token 1cent per search, would likely intersect with a data grab as a brass ring. It would create one more reason to do "other than google"
Seems unlikely given the biggest search engine makes the majority of its money from ads :(
How much would a Google search cost me if it wasn't ad supported?
Would you be willing to pay a subscription fee to a search engine?
They have a paid option. It's paying or ads. Running a search engine is not free. Somebody has to pay for it.
How could search survive without ads? Charge users per search?
Search engines should be something you pay for. Surely search engine powerusers can afford to pay for such a service. If Google makes $1 per user per month or something, that's not too high a bar to get over.