paying for search results

TRX
April 3, 2012
140:
> The problem is getting people to pay for content.

I'd be willing to pay for relevant, informative content, or amusing or entertaining content, depending on what I'm looking for.

The problem is, I'm not willing to pay for the possibility of getting that content, sight unseen. Since the vast majority of "content" is crap, I'd be just as well off to light banknotes on fire for their entertainment value.

That's quantity over quality. There's also the "quantity over quantity" problem. If there are forty thousand pages returned by a search string, they're all interchangeable as far as I can tell, other than their Google / Bing / Yahoo pagerank, which I'm beginning to find less and less useful.