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Yahoo! Launches Pay-Per-Search

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the second-rate-search-costs-more dept.

vasah20 writes: "ZDNet.com has this article saying that Yahoo is starting a pay-per-search service for 'premium documents,' in attempt to offset some of its revenue losses. Maybe it's just me, but if people can already find the most relevant results on Google, what are the chances anyone's gonna use this service?"

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  1. Research Documents Database? by invi · · Score: 2, Redundant

    According to the site, Yahoo plans to charge consumers between $1 and $4 to retrieve files from a specialized database of some 25 million research documents culled from 7,100 publications (...)

  2. Re:Google making money? by RedWizzard · · Score: 1, Redundant

    According to this, yes. Of course they're privately held so there's no proof.