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Re:Yep: Google alternative that shares revenue with creators... by slater on Friday June 03, 2022 @06:52PM (#31614721)
Actually surprised at the lack of usual "(search results may also come from bing/google/yandex)"
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Re:Yep: Google alternative that shares revenue with creators... by daolf on Friday June 03, 2022 @06:58PM (#31614789)
Yup, they build everything and it costed them $60m.

That’s an impressive bet. And without funding!

https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/03/yep-search-engine/amp/?guc...

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Re:Yep: Google alternative that shares revenue with creators... by throwaway2016a on Friday June 03, 2022 @07:16PM (#31614975)
I wonder if they are including in that the money they already invested in the Ahrefs SEO tools. It seems to me that their SEO tools were already crawling a lot of content so this may be an extension of that / a new way to monetize the data. I personally know a lot of people who pay for their SEO tools so I imagine they have a decent amount of revenue.
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Re:Yep: Google alternative that shares revenue with creators... by botsbreeder on Friday June 03, 2022 @10:22PM (#31616301)
There is a lot of intersection between Ahrefs tools and search. We were collecting web data for Ahrefs tools for 12 years, now we repurpose these data for Yep.
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Re:Yep: Google alternative that shares revenue with creators... by slater on Friday June 03, 2022 @07:01PM (#31614818)
downside: doesn't seem to care much for boolean ("-keyword") search terms, instead opting for the modern thing of "let's actually search for that keyword, too!" v______v
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Re:Yep: Google alternative that shares revenue with creators... by botsbreeder on Friday June 03, 2022 @10:23PM (#31616314)
No boolean search yet.
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Re:Yep: Google alternative that shares revenue with creators... by botsbreeder on Friday June 03, 2022 @10:15PM (#31616241)
We do indexing ourselves and don't use any third-party APIs.
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