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648 sats \ 3 replies \ @bumi 5 Dec 2022 \ parent \ on: Building a new Web Search Engine. Just for you, Stackers! bitcoin
yes, sharing the revenue with the publishers would be a nice USP and solves some of the criticism of how it currently works.
maybe the user even only pays when they actually click the link - assuming this means the result looks relevant to them.
Thanks for the feedback!
Regarding the 'user only pays when clicks' - need to think about that, this sounds nice, but at least I see a problem that search will then be abused by bots that load search results for free but don't 'click', as Google is abused today. Anyways, thanks a lot!
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What would bots do with the search results? bots are generally a problem I guess?
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Bots do DDoS, they use search to provide various services for marketers and SEO industry (without sharing any revenue with the search engine), they try to influence search engine's internal metrics, etc.
I think any action should have a proper cost, which should solve or at leave heavily reduce various unwanted behaviors.
I like the idea of taking sats for a search, and then redistributing these sats to both those who received views and those who received clicks. In what proportion, and how to do accounting properly is the question - views happen right after you pay for search, but clicks on that search might happen days later, not trivial to setup accounting for this.
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