This is something I’ve been thinking about a lot recently - how could search engine revenue be divided more fairly? Bill Gates suggested that the ad revenue should be shared with users, but now a startup called Gravee is trying something just as interesting - they want to split their earnings with the websites […]

Marketing Vox reports that the search service Kanoodle plans to pay publishers for distributing its cookies. Niall Kennedy explains:
Advertising network Kanoodle will now pay webmasters for planting a cookie on a visitor’s computer without ever showing an advertisement. Sites placing a cookie classifying a user’s browsing habits into one of 7,500 contextual ad categories. […]

I think it’s fair to say I’m not overly impressed with Congoo Beta. Quite frankly, I don’t get it. Here’s the blurb:
Congoo is a new type of search engine that uses unique, patented technology to improve upon today’s typical search experience. Congoo’s search results focus on providing access to previously un-indexed premium content. […]

Jookster is a community-driven search engine. Yup - another one, folks! Like Filangy, OutFoxed (a Firefox extension), Collaborative Rank and Wink, Jookster adds social bookmarking to the mix to generate more relevant search results. Mike Arrington writes:
A key part of the service is associating with friends. When you perform a search, you […]

Filangy appears to be another social search play. It features personalized search (based on your bookmarks and browsing history), social search and tagging. It reminds me of Collaborative Rank, the search engine based on del.icio.us bookmarks. From the Filangy site:
We created Filangy because we felt that as the Internet has grown it […]

Rob Hof points to a search engine called AnooX, which claims to pay users to search. What’s more, it appears to have a human voting system built on top of a regular search engine, just like my beloved Wink. I think revenue-sharing with users is great and most of my future projects will […]

All this talk of Riya’s possible acquisition has made me think about image search, face recognition and all the problems in that area. Getting humans to tag your photos, ala Flickr, seems to work on some levels, as does the traditional method of looking at the surrounding text. But there’s another solution - […]

Tara “Miss Rogue” Hunt, Alex Barnett and Ben Barren have been hacking Memeorandum - trying to get a post to appear on the front page of the automated news site by gaming the system. And it appears to have worked. Alex even created a screencast showing exactly how they did it (very easily, […]

A must-read article: Search Engines Prepare For Behavioral Targeting. It’s fairly long, so here are some edited highlights for Attention-poor readers:
We’re all used to patting down Google, Yahoo!, or MSN for relevant information, but what if they started frisking us first? What if the search engines we’ve all come to rely on started examining […]