alexgieg He is either an alt account of an employee here or a troll comparing a search engine which advertises it self as being the solution to (free) google ad driven search results with random supermarket products.
If the pricing of a product such as this makes ad driven search results look good (because a guy e.g from Greece does not have to pay half his salary for example for a monthly subscription) then such a search engine defeats its purpose or serves as a Google advertisement like "You surely don't want to pay $10 a month for that come to us it is free" lol instead of being a solution.
And as far as cost goes if Netflix can serve 720p25FPS video and 128+kbps encoded audio(which have to be served at steady symmetrical pace every single second not just average at 25 frames per second so that movie scenes wouldn't seem to slow down or speed up, which is more computationally intense) and used to charge $10* for that (and be profitable ) then a search engine surely can charge a ][_,([])'][' less.
But they seem to want to be a luxury item not a service, and such behavior makes the sell even harder like even for people that don't mind the price because it is like telling them "we are heavily profit driven so down the line we might eventually end up selling your data too just to increase the profit" if they don't do that already.
*Yes in the USA recently they increased the price even further but that was just profit driven since they were profitable year over year just fine when the sub was about $10, and they still sell it for under $3 in some regions e.g turkey.
And again Netflix is not the same product (it is just more computationally and bandwidth expensive by orders of magnitude hence I use it as a comparison for operational cost arguments) they can be AH because it doesnt matter they sell access to flicks...
This is supposed to be a more humanitarian and ideology driven solution its not about consuming a product but rather "doing things the honest and the right way" ... supposedly.
