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Why pay for a search engine

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162 points lr0 | 1 comments | 14 Oct 24 03:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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ipaddr ◴[14 Oct 24 04:22 UTC] No.41834153[source]▶
To be in the top 1% you would likely need to depend on search on a daily basis for your livelihood. As a reminder the Starter plan is USD $5/month with 300 searches included.

99% of people search less than 10 times a day with loading the next page counting as a search. That's interesting and hard to accept but might be true with many living in apps and wall gardens like facebook. I wonder what the mode number is for those 99%. 1 or 2 searches a day.

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johnnyanmac ◴[14 Oct 24 04:35 UTC] No.41834228[source]▶
>99% of people search less than 10 times a day with loading the next page counting as a search.

that's pretty crazy to hear. Especially since on this day alone, a weekend, I seem to have 20 unique searches. I can easily hit triple digits a day when researching for a project or on the job. Search is invaluable to me.

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1. a57721 ◴[14 Oct 24 05:45 UTC] No.41834552[source]▶
I do 100+ searches a day, but that would easily drop to ~10 if I don't count searches where I know from the beginning that I am going to click on the link to Wikipedia / GitHub / some other familiar website. With the rise of AI-generated content and low-quality content farms, I am turning to the old habits of keeping bookmarks to reliable sources anyways.