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We made product and business progress since that article. Currently we make more revenue from our API than Ads. Wehave other revenue streams in place and planne
by ColinHayhurst 5y ago
We made product and business progress since that article. Currently we make more revenue from our API than Ads. Wehave other revenue streams in place and planned. Can't diagree with your points at all. We see Ads as part of the picture; contextual ads only of course. We stand totally against surveillance based Ads [0].
No impact of UK laws, at least yet. That might change for us and every other search engine/service with UK users, but recent indications are encouraging on search, if not social media [1]. Our take on anonymity here [2].
[0] https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/07/time-to-ban-surveillance-based-advertising.html https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/07/time-to-ban-surveillance-bas...
[1] https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/08/online-safety-our-feedback-to-government.html https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/08/online-safety-our-feedback-t...
[2] https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/10/in-defence-of-online-anonymity.html https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/10/in-defence-of-online-anonymi...
- vivekraghunatha 5y ago(Founder of Neeva here) Colin -- huge congratulations on the 5B milestone. Crawling the web, building and serving a large index, and powering your own ranking is not for the faint of heart. Great job!
- moralestapia 5y agoThanks for being here Colin, that says a lot about your commitment to the product :) I will take a look at your API as I'm currently doing my own thing using Common Crawl + some perl (yeah... perl) scripts, but that's quite expensive to maintain.