Agreed. There is room for different plans, but we want some search metric to define the pricing.
On a side note, I truly did not want to put up a paywall. But, it is necessary to support our servers.
On a side note, I truly did not want to put up a paywall. But, it is necessary to support our servers.
Also, there's more to providing a service than just server time.
Exactly. So what's the point of limiting the number of searches to 800? The target market is those that rely heavily on search engines, and they're telling them they don't want their business.
Which part of the service actually costs you more money? Is it the cpu/bandwidth of returning search results, or is it the indexing that happens before then, or the storage/memory?
Maybe instead of charging per # of queries, you could charge per number of sites the user follows/searches? You could always leave something in the ToS about abuse to have an option to stop users who are making an excessive number of searches.