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Re:The Age of PageRank Is Over by function_seven on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @10:13PM (#33541728)
I wonder how much the per-search cost is marginal cost vs. amortized fixed costs.

If their paying user base grows by 10x, do the searches drop from 4¢ each to 2¢ each?

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Re:The Age of PageRank Is Over by Tumblewood on Thursday November 10, 2022 @01:54AM (#33543130)
Most of their cost comes from API accesses to other services (e.g., Bing), so unless they can replace those API calls the price cannot go down very much.
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Re:The Age of PageRank Is Over by Gareth321 on Thursday November 10, 2022 @07:05AM (#33545248)
API access is negotiated by volume, so as they grow, they can negotiate preferential pricing.
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