Getting revenue streams...

Hi there,

I'm just wanting some advice really, I've been building an search engine for 5 years on and off and now I've finally got something put together and is working absolutely fine, bots are working out and spidering as many websites as possible. Results are coming back "OK" but I would like some help on how to make a revenue stream for the search engine? I've got a few ideas but I think it's copying and not interested in copying.

It's still in dev and I am beta testing it. Can anyone shread some light on a revenue stream for this?

Thanks.

 

Wow, facing the mother giant Google there!

My first thought was to simply do what Google has done, ads on the right and above all the listings. But if you consider that copying then maybe you shouldn't..

You could also do what Google hasn't done, and that's to have an ad on the front page of the engine (Google have been over $10million for an ad in that space but they've refused), however I doubt you'll be getting those kind of offers, no offence! Also maybe a text ad at the top of the front page. Basically any other advertising.

Other than ads I'm not sure what you could be doing, maybe I'm just not being creative enough.. To be unfair you could have people pay you for better rankings, but that's a bit sketchy

Whatever you do I wish you good luck with the venture! It seems ambitious but I'm sure you'll be able to pull off something

 

Thank you.

No, won't get people to pay for ranking haha. I think I'll be doing the advertisement network.

Thanks.