I got to thinking about how much I use Google to answer questions the other day. My search activity calendar looks like this every month:
Even between Jan 1-3 when I was in Vegas I did 1-3 searches. Some months are even more heavy than this. So how much would I pay? I wouldn’t have a problem with paying up to $1500/year to use Google. Maybe even more if I had to. It is THAT valuable to me.
How much would you pay to use Google?
P.S. I think the search history is super freakin’ cool.
Update: Pam points out that the calendar is actually all web activity and not just search. Touché. That said, it doesn’t change how valuable I think Google is to me. I’d still cough up the $1500.
Interesting question Dave…
I would pay a lot for Google too - not just for their search (I don´t even know who I would use instead of Google…?!), but also for their other products - especially GMail, which I just absolutly love!
Can you imagine if they were paying us $0.01 for every search you are making? They are making good money from our searches, maybe they should share the wealth!
Dominic
Nice, where do you find that Calendar at on Google?
You must be logged in of course for the history to build, but then just click Web History up in the right hand corner.
Don’t you worry about someone getting access to that data and then knowing how much porn you search for?
Doesn’t that count all sites you visit while logged in, not just your searches?
AFAIK the activity calendar only counts searches. Web history definitely logs all the sites you visit.
Hmm okay I’m going to have to politely disagree in a post later
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Hmmm, what about a pay per search model. 1 cent per search or something like that.
heh :), i got you beat, my jan stats
Web Activity
Total Google searches: 23912
And I was gone out of the country for 1.5 weeks :), my feb count is already 24k as I’ve been working and catching up.
And you are right, i would pay for it, its fantastic.