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Re:Building a Search Engine from Scratch by bla3 on Friday December 06, 2019 @03:24PM (#21725631)
By selling ads solely against the query, and figuring out a way to track conversions against generated unique referring URL instead of using cookies. Maybe it's less profitable, but it might still be profitable, and it gives you a foothold.
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Re:Building a Search Engine from Scratch by MrQuincle on Saturday December 07, 2019 @05:14AM (#21729463)
Or a sponsored and unsponsored section. The only thing you pay for is for being higher up in the sponsored pane. No need for tracking. No conversion clicks tracked. Only higher on the sponsored listing.
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Re:Building a Search Engine from Scratch by colejohnson66 on Saturday December 07, 2019 @12:14PM (#21731324)
Wouldn’t that prevent people with less money from buying their way up to the top? In other words, the ones with the most money (not startups, mom&pop shops, etc) would be the only ones at the top.
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