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Including hosting? I'm sure it's actually in red.

• Supermancho 6y ago
  I'm not. I knew a developer who, in his spare time, developed a clever scraper. He scraped the top stories and results from Google, then scraped similar content based on Google's own ranking, then submitted that content to his own aggregator sites (all resolving to the same server). He ran ads on it. He got plenty of traffic and was net <$500/month in 2006. It's not that expensive to run a site and the right advertising partners (cough Taboola cough) pay nicely.
  • NeutronStar 6y ago
    Yeah, getting ad revenue for this kind of websites in 2006 was possible, now good luck.
• xwdv 6y ago
  If you include the hit to your professional reputation from actually plagiarizing a news site for revenue and getting blacklisted from the industry, then what did it cost? Everything.
  • waheoo 6y ago
    Or you get placed as a cto with a fat raise.
    • xwdv 6y ago
      My dream job.