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Google makes about $3 per user per month in ad revenue[0]. With VAT and transfer costs that makes a equivalent subscription maybe $5 per month? (Too much for m
by nolist_policy 2y ago
Google makes about $3 per user per month in ad revenue[0]. With VAT and transfer costs that makes a equivalent subscription maybe $5 per month?
(Too much for my taste.)
Then you have to factor in that (far) fewer users are going to use/pay for their products if it's a subscription.
It's a though calculation for sure.
[0] https://thenextweb.com/news/heres-how-much-money-you-made-google-by-staring-at-its-ads-for-20-years https://thenextweb.com/news/heres-how-much-money-you-made-go...
- sroussey 2y agoThat’s what Kagi charges: https://kagi.com/pricing?plan=individual https://kagi.com/pricing?plan=individual
- no_wizard 2y agoFor 300 searches a month. Google is making it based on theoretically unlimited searches for everyone. No caps in the number of searches. You have to to the $10 USD a month tier with Kagi to have the same expectation met, which is unlimited searches
- AlexandrB 2y agoThis assumes that privacy-preserving advertising would make Google $0. I doubt this is the case, especially if every other company is also using a similar business model. For purely placement advertising, Google still has more reach than any newspaper or magazine ever produced in the pre-internet era.