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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: 0.203s | 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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1. aniviacat ◴[14 Oct 24 07:31 UTC] No.41835120[source]▶
I assume these numbers are heavily skewed by the amount of people doing 0 searches a day.

Lots of people hardly use their webbrowser, spending almost all their time within apps.

YouTube and TikTok have become popular search engines, partly for this reason.

If you only count people for whom paying a monthly subscription for search wouldn't be completely ridiculous, I'd guess these numbers would skyrocket.