I have the early adopter professional plan, but I must admit that while I consider myself very much a power user I have never been close to even 700 searches a month.
To me, the 700 soft limit seems absurd so I'm curious to hear how you interact with the product.
I average 50-100 searches per work day and 10-20 searcher per off day (totalling 1-2.5k per month). But I don't feel I'm using search in a particularly strange way.
For example, if I need to know how the new WidgetBean in SpringBoot works I'll usually end up making ~10 queries related to it before I move on to a new area of research.
E.g., I'll search "SpringBoot WidgetBean release notes" then "SpringBoot WidgetBean examples" or "WidgetBean test double", "WidgetBean in MockMvc test", "WidgetBean PowerMock known issues in MockMvc test", "WidgetBean FooService interation in MockMvc test SpringBoot 3".
Essentially, when I'm searching I go wide to survey the information landscape, then refine my search term as I discover what I actually need to know
This quickly balloons as I'm expected to know many things at $dayjob :)
What does it look like when you search?
Date (UTC) Searches
Apr 28, 2023 23
Apr 27, 2023 11
Apr 26, 2023 24
Apr 25, 2023 4
Apr 24, 2023 18
Apr 23, 2023 7
Apr 22, 2023 1
Apr 21, 2023 6
Apr 20, 2023 7
Apr 19, 2023 10
Apr 17, 2023 18
Apr 16, 2023 1
Apr 15, 2023 14
Apr 14, 2023 22
Apr 13, 2023 7
Apr 12, 2023 18
Apr 11, 2023 11
Apr 10, 2023 13
Apr 9, 2023 4
Apr 8, 2023 15
Apr 7, 2023 7
Apr 6, 2023 6
Apr 5, 2023 7
Apr 4, 2023 12
Apr 3, 2023 19
Apr 2, 2023 11
Apr 1, 2023 15
(UTC) Searches
Apr 2023 311
Mar 2023 495
Feb 2023 313
Jan 2023 434
Dec 2022 386
Nov 2022 396
Oct 2022 425
I typically start with one of the same type of queries as you did above, then I open every interesting-looking page from the first query in a nested tab (I use tree style tabs in my "research" browser) and start reading them, ctrl-clicking again to open interesting links in new tabs nested in a new level beneath, closing pages that was clearly useless and bookmarking in raindrop if I immediately sense that the oage I am on is something I will need again.
Once I have exhausted this tree, at least temporarily, I start a new search - like you do - in a new top level tab anf create a new tree from it.