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Re:Why I Work on Ads by onlyrealcuzzo on Thursday May 06, 2021 @02:20PM (#27067226)
A Google subscription would likely need to cost over $20/m - considering how many people wouldn't pay even one dollar for paid search. Google had $186Bn in revenue last year and ~1.8Bn monthly active users. The revenue comes almost entirely from search - with 1.2Tn searches per year - that's $0.15 per search - hardly anyone would pay that - and to get the same amount of revenue and profit with less users - they'd have to charge many many multiples of that. It's just not feasible.
Re:Why I Work on Ads by ThaDood on Thursday May 06, 2021 @02:28PM (#27067326)
If Google had a paid, ad-free option for more then just YouTube and some drive space I would be happy to pay it. I don't know if I would shell out for paid Google searches but I would at-least like to see an alternative option.