What would be data source? Relays are supposed to search in their DB. If your relay only does NIP-50, you shouldn't have any data (or you save events from other relays)
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Yes, if you pay, the relay goes hunting for your events plus the events from your social circle, and maybe one step beyond that, similar to Followers+ in nostrgram.
It would make sense to get a full set of metadata, but that's relatively small.