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I'm sure that your search engine with no websites on it will be a huge success.

• tboyd47 9y ago
  Do you know another way out of the Googernet ad matrix? http://www.businessinsider.com/google-saved-an-estimated-887-million-by-paying-adblock-plus-to-show-its-ads-2013-8 http://www.businessinsider.com/google-saved-an-estimated-887...
  • davidcbc 9y ago
    You can do any of the following. 1) Accept that most websites have to make money to continue to provide you content and that advertising is how most of them do it. 2) Do not visit websites that choose to support their business through advertising 3) Use uBlock and continue to use websites. But given the prevalence of websites that monetize via advertising a search engine that excludes websites with ads is as useful as a social network without any people.
    • tboyd47 9y ago
      Eh, it's not quite the same as a social network. Indexing a webpage doesn't require any action on the publisher's part (even though in practice, it's astonishing the hoops publishers jump through for SEO). If that were the case, you would be right, and there would not be any room for niche search engines like DuckDuckGo. Like I said in other comments - my gripe is not with advertising. My gripe is with CPM. The trend of optimizing for CPM has created a perverse incentive structure that harms the web ecosystem in many ways, and IMO, only benefits Google.