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.
January 29th, 2008 at 4:15 am
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!
January 29th, 2008 at 5:55 am
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
January 29th, 2008 at 7:11 am
Nice, where do you find that Calendar at on Google?
January 29th, 2008 at 10:46 am
You must be logged in of course for the history to build, but then just click Web History up in the right hand corner.
January 29th, 2008 at 11:59 am
Don’t you worry about someone getting access to that data and then knowing how much porn you search for?
January 29th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Doesn’t that count all sites you visit while logged in, not just your searches?
January 29th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
AFAIK the activity calendar only counts searches. Web history definitely logs all the sites you visit.
January 29th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Hmm okay I’m going to have to politely disagree in a post later
January 29th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
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February 14th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Hmmm, what about a pay per search model. 1 cent per search or something like that.
February 14th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
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.