Originally Posted by Robbie

Actually this is the same idea I was kicking around about 5 years ago, but for different reasons. My thought has always been that my tgp's will be the first to get nailed if and when the govt. decides to REALLY come after porn on the net. Free sites will be the first target to "protect the children".
So the obvious thing to do would be to turn your tgp into a very cheap paysite.
I like the search engine idea too.
And don't let the skeptical people on here discourage you. Marketing is all about presenting the "meal" in different ways. Yes, there are some people who will pay $4.99 a month to have a convenient porn portal. And yes, of course they don't have to pay.
But a lot of people will. The concept being that you are going to provide a better and "safer" way to find free porn since you are a paid service.
That's the way I would market it.
These days with all the trojans, viruses, and ad and spyware...that feeling of security means a lot to the surfer.
It's how I've made a lot of money with my tgp's. I developed a relationship with surfers over the years. They know that I personally look at everything on my site as opposed to all the sites out there that run on "automatic pilot".
Your search engine idea can work the same way...IF you make sure you have quality control. If you just sit back and let the spider do all the work without human verification of those galleries...then you will lose that surfer confidence the first time they get slammed by pop ups, redirects, and viruses.
So make sure you surf your search engine yourself. Scripts and spiders aren't enough to catch all the tricky shit. It takes a set of human eyes.
Good luck!