What would you pay monthly to be searchable?

Question

For $10-20 per month (the rough cost of middle of the road web hosting), what would you pay to be searchable? Your favorite niche vertical like your twitter network, full fidelity search of the glory days of Usenet posts, your bookshelf?

jolmg · Accepted Answer

The written content of images and the spoken content of videos on the internet?
Not sure about the monthly-bill thing. It'd have to be content that I'd want to search multiple times a week, and I don't think there's any like that.
Maybe a better pricing model would be a set number of searches? $5 for 100 searches or something like that? That might align better with the costs, too.

jamesponddotco · Answer

I would pay up to $120 per month for a search engine that had its own crawler, and was completely open source, as long as it worked with JS disabled.
The crawler is, arguably, the hardest part. We have open source search engines out there, like searx[1], but most of them are search aggregators, and depend on Google, Bing, and a few other established search engines.
[1] https://github.com/asciimoo/searx

hyko · Answer

I don&rsquo;t understand what you mean?