1) Because there are so many free providers out there.
2) If the free providers don't find something, I don't know what I'm missing out on, so there is no incentive to pay. If I know that I'm missing out on something I probably have enough information to know how to find it without paying anyway.
What you are doing is asking people to pay for you to help them find something when as far as they can tell they have already found it. You can't demonstrate what value you provide to the buyer without giving all that value away.
All that said, I don't think that makes it a bad idea, just not one that you can charge the user for. If you build a system where user feedback effects search rankings, and you can convince enough people to use it and actually give you feedback on sites, and if you got enough users I think there would be other ways of generating revenue (probably selling to Google as someone else suggested would be your best bet, assuming of course they didn't just build it themselves)
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No I wouldn't.
1) Because there are so many free providers out there.
2) If the free providers don't find something, I don't know what I'm missing out on, so there is no incentive to pay. If I know that I'm missing out on something I probably have enough information to know how to find it without paying anyway.
What you are doing is asking people to pay for you to help them find something when as far as they can tell they have already found it. You can't demonstrate what value you provide to the buyer without giving all that value away.
All that said, I don't think that makes it a bad idea, just not one that you can charge the user for. If you build a system where user feedback effects search rankings, and you can convince enough people to use it and actually give you feedback on sites, and if you got enough users I think there would be other ways of generating revenue (probably selling to Google as someone else suggested would be your best bet, assuming of course they didn't just build it themselves)
[Edit: Google have tried something similar to this before - http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/11/google-searchwiki-l... but it seems to have disappeared now so I'm guessing it was an experiment that didn't work]