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Re: Google squelches Sharogle

tips — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 23:45:21 -0000

Perfect site :-) I will recommend it to all my friends and fans

Re: Google squelches Sharogle

zilpho — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:20:26 -0000

Chris says "All Sharogle was doing was rotate Adsense for search and keep 50% of the rotations for themselves. Their argument that people who use and make search engines successful must get a cut out of it does not make much sense."

Because?

Chris says: "In the end it is the Advertiser who loses. If Sharogle wants to provide a search experience. it can merely redirect their site to Google. Everyone knows where to go to search something."

And how would they generate income for their users? What would be the reason to even have a website that is directing all searches to a site that evereyone already knows about?

Re: Google squelches Sharogle

Chris — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:59:11 -0000

Just because one has a comment does not justify their rationality.

All Sharogle was doing was rotate Adsense for search and keep 50% of the rotations for themselves. Their argument that people who use and make search engines successful must get a cut out of it does not make much sense.

Their operation clearly gives a user to click on someone else's Adsense for search to earn credits.

In the end it is the Advertiser who loses. If Sharogle wants to provide a search experience. it can merely redirect their site to Google. Everyone knows where to go to search something.

Re: Google squelches Sharogle

zilpho — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:19:25 -0000

Ben,

You were not clicking on your own ads, in fact when you made a search you had no idea whose ads were showing up.

Eric said "Google has killed a valiant effort by a company that wanted to let you partake of Google’s profits."

I think you should rephrase this statement because the site is not dead. As far as I know they are forming new partnerships to make it work.

Re: Google squelches Sharogle

Molly — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:09:19 -0000

@ben baker
The users wouldn't get paid more if they clicked on ads, because they weren't their own ads being displayed. No user sees their own ads.

Also, sharogle is relaunching using a different paid search engine.

Re: Google squelches Sharogle

Ben Baker — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:38:39 -0000

Wouldn't this be an incentive for Users to commit click fraud??

Duh????

Re: Google squelches Sharogle

zilpho — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:54:46 -0000

Ryan,

If it was dumb why did they become so popular One (1) month after launch? I don't think you understood the idea. What they did with google was they rotated your adsense account so when members search you stand a chance of receiving clicks on your ads. It was in fact a smart idea, however google decided that it was against their adsense policy and blocked ads from the site. Sources said that google didn't like the "incentive to search" idea, but makes me wonder how companies like blingo.com are still able to use google search since they offer incentives to search big time.

Re: Google squelches Sharogle

ryan — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:30:16 -0000

this could be the dumbest thing I have ever seen. If you want to make some of the google profits why not just sign up for an adsense account and not have to share it with a third party.