well thats a pain in the bum, it was very handy for the odd quick query.
I really can't see its $99 a month worth though. Have they added anything to justify that rate of charge, does anyone know?
Maybe it's free if you work for them?
I'm almost sure it will work for them tho: they must have studied the "clientele" before they made this move. I bet regular searchers made up less than 0.1% of their traffic heh.
What's their burn rate? If you're only spending $50,000/month, then you only need 5500 subscribers before someone is earning money.
Of course, I played their Three Search Engine Monte for a while and I ended up choosing Blekko zero times, Bing once and Google ten times or so. So their core strength would not seem to be search for regular users.