Ask HN: Idea Sunday

Re:Ask HN: Idea Sunday by mudil on Sunday April 13, 2014 @06:33PM (#7583405)

Open source ad serving platform. Or P2P ad serving platform . Basically like Google Adsense minus Google, the middle man.

I have a site, and every month I get a check from Google with a seemingly random amount. Yes, it is connected to traffic, but what cut Google makes is a complete mystery. In my opinion Google Adsense is an unfair scheme for millions of publishers.

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Re:Ask HN: Idea Sunday by techstroke on Sunday April 13, 2014 @06:59PM (#7583500)

Well, I have been a adsense publisher for over 5 years now and they are pretty clear about their commission rates they give us 68% for content ads - https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/180195?hl=en (earlier it was 70% i think )

and to me it's not unfair as even if someone was to make such a OS system , he still has to manage server cost/support/advertiser acquisition/marketing cost etc. & so wont be able to pay as good as adsense also the ads initially wont be that diverse & so ads might not be in context or even blank spaces , kind of chicken and egg problem !

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Re:Ask HN: Idea Sunday by danieltillett on Sunday April 13, 2014 @06:40PM (#7583432)

Couldn't your problem be solved by Google just being more transparent? My thought why they aren't is to avoid people over optimising their pages.

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