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Sounds nice, I'm all for more search engine competition even regardless of the revenue share model. I'm curious how exactly they pay creators though? If I had a

Sounds nice, I'm all for more search engine competition even regardless of the revenue share model. I'm curious how exactly they pay creators though? If I had a super-popular blog that got millions of hits a month through search, does that mean they'll send me a check or something? Also, what about sites like YouTube that mainly host content created freely by others?

kevinh 4y ago
The profit share section (https://yep.com/profit-share https://yep.com/profit-share) doesn't have any details as to how it works, which doesn't exactly fill me with confidence.
- hackernewds 4y ago
  How is this even supposed to function? It's as if Grubhub went and said they're now doing delivery from every single restaurant in the US
  - fastball 4y ago
    Haven't there been delivery startups that do that?
  - st34m 4y ago
    It would work like any other 3rd party website verification, e.g. some of these options that Google uses for their webmaster tools: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9008080?hl=en#choose_method https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9008080?hl=en#c... Uploading a file that contains a token and then serving that file at a specified URL is common. So, you'd need to go and claim the money that yep.com is apparently going to keep track of for each site or subdomain.
  - wumpus 4y ago
    Grubhub made a fake website for every restaurant in the US...
botsbreeder 4y ago
This is how we see it. Your content is helpful to people, your content helps search engine to provide relevant results, relevant results help search engine to keep user base and get revenue from ads. Search engines could be supporting people creating helpful content. But they are not. Google does it in Youtube. So if you create good video you can make living from it, but if you write a good blog you can't live from it. Unless you put affiliate links, ads or maybe paywall.

kevinh 4y ago

The profit share section (https://yep.com/profit-share https://yep.com/profit-share) doesn't have any details as to how it works, which doesn't exactly fill me with confidence.

hackernewds 4y ago
How is this even supposed to function? It's as if Grubhub went and said they're now doing delivery from every single restaurant in the US
- fastball 4y ago
  Haven't there been delivery startups that do that?
- st34m 4y ago
  It would work like any other 3rd party website verification, e.g. some of these options that Google uses for their webmaster tools: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9008080?hl=en#choose_method https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9008080?hl=en#c... Uploading a file that contains a token and then serving that file at a specified URL is common. So, you'd need to go and claim the money that yep.com is apparently going to keep track of for each site or subdomain.
- wumpus 4y ago
  Grubhub made a fake website for every restaurant in the US...

botsbreeder 4y ago

This is how we see it. Your content is helpful to people, your content helps search engine to provide relevant results, relevant results help search engine to keep user base and get revenue from ads. Search engines could be supporting people creating helpful content. But they are not. Google does it in Youtube. So if you create good video you can make living from it, but if you write a good blog you can't live from it. Unless you put affiliate links, ads or maybe paywall.