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Re:A startup is testing a subscription model for search engines by chris_f on Monday July 06, 2020 @08:24PM (#23754332)
>If I had to bet, Neeva will go after business users and combine Bing's index of the public web with their index of internal business data to make a catered experience that's subscription worthy.

Completely agree. There is much easier money to be made in a B2B premium search app than in the consumer space.

It is also a common path for search companies; for example FAROO went that direction.

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Re:A startup is testing a subscription model for search engines by three_seagrass on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @01:29PM (#23761650)
Yep - there are already major players in that space: https://www.algolia.com/
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