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I would pay at least $10 a month for a good search engine, like google when it first started. Maybe that web is gone, so it could not work, but in the old days
by njarboe 9y ago
I would pay at least $10 a month for a good search engine, like google when it first started. Maybe that web is gone, so it could not work, but in the old days one could copy almost any error message and get a great explanation of the problem.
I bet at least a million other people would too. Maybe $10 million a month in revenue could support a user focused search engine?
- junkscience2017 9y agothat's hardly "beating" Google, or even DDG for that matter
- perfmode 9y agoGoogle search earns over $138,000,000 per day. Best of luck outgunning them.
- justboxing 9y agoSource?
- infogulch 9y agoGoogle made $79B from ad revenue in 2016[1]. $79B in a year / 365 days per year = 218M per day. So GP underestimated by quite a bit. Or put another way: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=google+ad+revenue http://lmgtfy.com/?q=google+ad+revenue [1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/266249/advertising-revenue-of-google/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/266249/advertising-reven... (Brought to you by Google Search: so ubiquitous it has become it's own meme.)
- lasc4r 9y agois "making per day" profit or revenue?
- gcatalfamo 9y agoRevenue
- lasc4r 9y agoIf I had a hot dog cart and sold $500 worth of hot dogs, but the hot dogs cost me $100, to me, that's not making $500.
- kelnos 9y agoYou don't need to beat Google on revenue. You just need to make enough to cover costs and retain enough talent to keep improving your search engine.
- Noos 9y agoWhenever anyone talks about business ideas, there's always some person that says "Oh, well I will pay so much for it!" and when you implement...they don't pay. That's probably been the downfall of many a web service when they realize its cheap for a person to say that they might pay so much for something, but hard for them to open their purse when it's time.
- flamedoge 9y agoWhat's key to selling? Is it to pander to customer's wants? or make something so good to make it practically a need that money means little and customers will gamble?
- njarboe 9y agoI agree that the vast majority won't pay. 99% of people won't pay for news. 1% will pay for the WSJ or New York times. 0.001% pay $24,000 per year for a Bloomberg terminal. I think search engines could differentiate similarly. Maybe they have and I just don't know about the good paid options.