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  • goBigtime
    Confirmed User
    • Nov 2002
    • 7761
    #1

    New Search Engine pays people to search...

    Imagine a "Google" that paid people to visit the adwords, as well as other 'easter egg' treasure hunt type of payoff's tucked around the site where various prizes can be won.

    Think about it from a casino perspective with their slot machines... except the people feeding the slots are the advertisers & the visitors get to pull the arm all day for free winning prizes while they find what they are looking for.

    Hmmmmm.




    Last edited by goBigtime; 05-11-2004, 03:48 AM.
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    • JamesK
      hi
      • Jun 2002
      • 16731
      #2
      I don't think that'd work out well.
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        • polish_aristocrat
          Too lazy to set a custom title
          • Jul 2002
          • 40377
          #3
          Poeple would click on your adult adwords campaign only to win a t-shirt - where is the sense?
          I don't use ICQ anymore.

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            • hydro
              Confirmed User
              • Dec 2003
              • 4216
              #4
              are you talking about a paid to click search portal type thing? If so that would be useless. People who get paid to click never buy anything. they only go to the site so they can get thier

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                • goBigtime
                  Confirmed User
                  • Nov 2002
                  • 7761
                  #5
                  Originally posted by hydro
                  are you talking about a paid to click search portal type thing? If so that would be useless. People who get paid to click never buy anything. they only go to the site so they can get thier

                  Eh? The house never loses

                  Obviously you would pay out less than you make in advertisements.. ie slots pay out 95% or whatever.. you would adapt the same sort of model. Pay out 95% while building your SE model up.

                  As far as beating fraud and automated searches... that is cake to prevent.

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                    • hydro
                      Confirmed User
                      • Dec 2003
                      • 4216
                      #6
                      but paying people to click links is useless. They wont buy anything since they are most likely in deep debt if they need to earn 2 cents for every 20 clicks

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                        • dudus
                          Confirmed User
                          • Apr 2004
                          • 175
                          #7
                          yep this idea is about 5 years old. Pretty sure it would never work now...

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                            • goBigtime
                              Confirmed User
                              • Nov 2002
                              • 7761
                              #8
                              Example:

                              If google nets $100 million a month and has 100 million unique people searching monthly, then each person is worth $1/month net.

                              Put 20 cents per person in your pocket ($20 million) and kick back the other $80 million to the people who use the service.

                              Google obviously wouldn't want or need to do this -- they are top dog already.

                              But maybe if you wanted to compete with them and had services that were just as good or better.
                              Last edited by goBigtime; 05-11-2004, 03:58 AM.

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                                • goBigtime
                                  Confirmed User
                                  • Nov 2002
                                  • 7761
                                  #9
                                  oop.
                                  Last edited by goBigtime; 05-11-2004, 04:02 AM.

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                                    • SmutServer
                                      Registered User
                                      • Dec 2003
                                      • 23
                                      #10
                                      Originally posted by goBigtime
                                      Example:

                                      If google nets $100 million a month and has 100 million unique people searching monthly, then each person is worth $1/month net.

                                      Put 20 cents per person in your pocket ($20 million) and kick back the other $80 million to the people who use the service.

                                      Google obviously wouldn't want or need to do this -- they are top dog already.

                                      But maybe if you wanted to compete with them and had services that were just as good or better.

                                      google wouldnt net $100 mil a month if it only had 100 million uniques a month... rather 100 million searches per 12 hours...

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                                        • GeorgeK
                                          Confirmed User
                                          • Dec 2003
                                          • 423
                                          #11
                                          Most folks won't partner with you if you have "incentivized traffic", or will make huge restrictions, because the traffic quality is so low. Read the TOS of AdSense, or other Pay-Per-Click systems.

                                          You *can* often do so on a pay-per-action basis, though. That's how Spedia.net and other remnants of the "AllAdvantage" wave continue to operate. Some buying clubs will kick-back a fraction of their referral fees to members.
                                          I buy good domain names. Send lists to George (at) LOFFS.com

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                                            • johnbosh
                                              Confirmed User
                                              • Aug 2002
                                              • 8965
                                              #12
                                              Originally posted by polish_aristocrat
                                              Poeple would click on your adult adwords campaign only to win a t-shirt - where is the sense?
                                              lol

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                                                • goBigtime
                                                  Confirmed User
                                                  • Nov 2002
                                                  • 7761
                                                  #13
                                                  Originally posted by SmutServer
                                                  google wouldnt net $100 mil a month if it only had 100 million uniques a month... rather 100 million searches per 12 hours...

                                                  I said 100 million unique users (not monthly searches). I also said example

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                                                    • samuel
                                                      Confirmed User
                                                      • Mar 2004
                                                      • 1986
                                                      #14
                                                      That has no sense..

                                                      And it will reduce the ratio of clicks which converts in commercial transactions even more.

                                                      Samuel

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                                                        • goBigtime
                                                          Confirmed User
                                                          • Nov 2002
                                                          • 7761
                                                          #15
                                                          Originally posted by GeorgeK
                                                          Most folks won't partner with you if you have "incentivized traffic", or will make huge restrictions, because the traffic quality is so low. Read the TOS of AdSense, or other Pay-Per-Click systems.

                                                          You *can* often do so on a pay-per-action basis, though. That's how Spedia.net and other remnants of the "AllAdvantage" wave continue to operate. Some buying clubs will kick-back a fraction of their referral fees to members.
                                                          You guys are thinking small here...

                                                          I'm not talking about reselling searches.

                                                          I'm talking about using it as one way to market a new SE of Google's caliber.

                                                          So you wouldn't be selling your searches to anyone. They would be your own.

                                                          Your advertisers would be aware of the model too.

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                                                            • goBigtime
                                                              Confirmed User
                                                              • Nov 2002
                                                              • 7761
                                                              #16
                                                              Originally posted by samuel
                                                              That has no sense..

                                                              And it will reduce the ratio of clicks which converts in commercial transactions even more.

                                                              Samuel
                                                              So what you're trying to say is that your per-click ad rates would have to be less than Googles to make up for this right?




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