(In the case that someone in Lemmy still use Google)

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          7 months ago

          As you said, it’s hard to calculate an exact number. But if you think your search results are only worth $1/month, that’s up to you to determine. I know if I was an ad-broker or profiler, I’d pay more than $1/month/person as that’s valuable information, in my opinion. And Kagi is worth much more than that to me. Proton theorizes:

          If Google Search market share is also 90% in the US, that’s over 274 million people using Google, and the company earns $393 per year from each of them.

          Ref: https://proton.me/blog/what-is-your-data-worth

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      7 months ago

      They’ve said that it costs them 1.5 cents to answer a search query, so that dollar a month wouldn’t go very far. I probably incidentally run 40-50 searches a day between my devices… $10 is a value that works for me.

      I’ve been using Kagi as my default since June, and don’t plan on stopping anytime soon.

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        7 months ago

        That sounds unlikely… But they’re a small search provider with a small customer base, so costs will be high maintaining all the infrastructure needed.

        As I linked elsewhere, Bing makes ~$10 per user per year. That’s really close to my $1/month figure. And that’s revenue, which doesn’t count advertiser acquisition costs and whatnot.

        I’m unwilling to pay $5/month for limited searches, but I’m willing to pay for search if it’s reasonable.