Yep: Google alternative that shares revenue with creators

Re:Yep: Google alternative that shares revenue with creators... by shannifin on Friday June 03, 2022 @07:25PM (#31615062)

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?

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Re:Yep: Google alternative that shares revenue with creators... by kevinh on Friday June 03, 2022 @07:28PM (#31615096)

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

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Re:Yep: Google alternative that shares revenue with creators... by hackernewds on Friday June 03, 2022 @08:14PM (#31615466)

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

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Re:Yep: Google alternative that shares revenue with creators... by st34m on Friday June 03, 2022 @11:46PM (#31616787)

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#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.

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Re:Yep: Google alternative that shares revenue with creators... by fastball on Friday June 03, 2022 @09:31PM (#31615928)

Haven't there been delivery startups that do that?

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Re:Yep: Google alternative that shares revenue with creators... by wumpus on Saturday June 04, 2022 @01:49AM (#31617401)

Grubhub made a fake website for every restaurant in the US...

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Re:Yep: Google alternative that shares revenue with creators... by botsbreeder on Friday June 03, 2022 @10:03PM (#31616163)

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.

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