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This is just a stop-gap measure to get some income before you implement context-sensitive ads, right? Most advertisers won't get any value from most searches.
by ggruschow 16y ago
This is just a stop-gap measure to get some income before you implement context-sensitive ads, right? Most advertisers won't get any value from most searches.
- epi0Bauqu 16y agoI think the traffic is still too low to offer a unique context-sensitive ads approach. So this is an experiment for now. I believe this exclusive approach offers a unique branding experience, but we'll see :)
- sachinag 16y agoIf you don't want to run AdSense ads, Microsoft's AdCenter allows (I believe) more customization with look and feel: https://advertising.microsoft.com/publisher https://advertising.microsoft.com/publisher
- hcho 16y agoOnly that, monetizing a search engine with other search engines' ad products would be a bit funny.
- ErrantX 16y agowell he is, in part, driving his search engine with other search engines' indexes so it would be entirely fitting! :)
- MikeCapone 16y agoWhat does that mean exactly. Are you talking about the no click stuff, or do you mean that DDG isn't crawling the web and indexing it, but using results from other search engines to build its own?
- ErrantX 16y ago> or do you mean that DDG isn't crawling the web and indexing it, He does his own indexing - but also uses (IIRC) Yahoo BOSS and Bing API's.
- MikeCapone 16y agoI wasn't familiar with Yahoo BOSS. http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/ http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/ So Yahoo is letting people use its search technology free of charge? Wow. Edit: it looks like Gabriel answers my question here: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/bbqw7/i_am_the_founder_of_a_search_engine_duck_duck_go/c0lyff9 http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/bbqw7/i_am_the_founder...
- epi0Bauqu 16y agoNote that Yahoo BOSS has an unclear future pending the final Microsoft/Yahoo search integration.