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"At USD $10/month, the price does not even cover our cost for average use" 240 searches cost them over $10.00. They will need to find additional revenue or re
by ipaddr 4y ago
"At USD $10/month, the price does not even cover our cost for average use"
240 searches cost them over $10.00. They will need to find additional revenue or reduce costs to even reach a break even point.
They will have to raise prices or make you pay per search or sell your data or better yet all three.
- function_seven 4y agoI wonder how much the per-search cost is marginal cost vs. amortized fixed costs. If their paying user base grows by 10x, do the searches drop from 4¢ each to 2¢ each?
- Tumblewood 4y agoMost of their cost comes from API accesses to other services (e.g., Bing), so unless they can replace those API calls the price cannot go down very much.
- Gareth321 4y agoAPI access is negotiated by volume, so as they grow, they can negotiate preferential pricing.
- prox 4y agoOr give notice to power users that they are exceeding quotas by a lot. Have a power user subscription perhaps. Many people don’t download a lot and ISPs are good, but you have outliers, datahoarders perhaps who take a lot of bandwith.
- loonster 4y ago> Our proposed price is dictated by the fact that search has a non zero cost. With other search engines, advertisers cover this cost. But it costs us about $1 to process 80 searches. .0125 per search. The teams rate is twice that.