Based on how search engines work (keep the index fresh, store the data to be queried) a pay-per-use approach is not sustainable
#askfediverse #search #ngi0 #nlnet #foss
How much are you willing to pay for subscription for a search engine per month per person ?
(see the previous pool)
You made me remember that the server sits idle most of the day: if they are 5 persons doing 100 queries per day where each query takes less than 1 second, the server will be fully busy, all cpu core maxed out, 500 seconds per day that means there is still 85900 seconds available (~23.86 hours) on all CPU cores...
What if the server provides more "services" or "applications" like #NextCloud? Would 10€ per month per users makes sense?
Having too much features is is not good nor easy.
We are gathering on irc at freenode the channel #peacesearch if you want to further discuss the matter.
The features only of the search engine part: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/babelia
At that does not include taking into account user feedback to be able to program the crawl from the search e.g. via a feed reader.
Also it does not mention interop between search engines which we dive in https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/peacesearch
Maybe a tiered subscription scheme would be useful? Something like: people can pay 5€ for search and maybe 5€ more for cloud services and 5€ more for extra storage space or something.