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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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devjab ◴[14 Oct 24 05:18 UTC] No.41834416[source]▶
What sort of job relies on internet searches? I’m not trying to be rude or anything like that at all, I’m genuinely curious.
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1. johnnyanmac ◴[14 Oct 24 05:58 UTC] No.41834627[source]▶
I work as a dev like many here. Specially games. So lots of documentation lookup (or tutorials on what should be in documentation. Let's be real, games don't document a lot publicly to begin with, and public documentation is really poor for the tech industry), research on tooling for project, research to understand some new technical feature that rose up, spell checking for technical terms the built in dictionaries can't check, etc. I could go on for paragraphs, there's always something to learn, re-learn, or simply fact check.

and of course: discussions among communities talking about all of the above. Be it benchmarks, landmines to look out for, bug reports, highly opinated design choices, etc. Definitely couldn't find all this restrained to a Discord server or Facebook page.

And that's just all on the business end. Sometimes you just want to search up a reaction gif for a chat, or find news of the goings on (which is down on the weekend).