Another new search engine but this one offers a twist — Gravee is promising to share 70 percent revenue with content providers, divided by the number of content providers that show up in the natural search results. Gravee also offers an affiliate program; sites with a Gravee search box can earn 35 percent of any ad revenue generated by traffic. The affiliate payout lessens the amount available for the AdShare payout if my reading of the complicated math is correct. Gravee uses other search engines results but hopes to attract content provideers willing to make material available to be searched.
From the lengthy introductory blog post: “Pierre’s vision for eBay had alot to do with leveling the playing field and empowering the little guy (in the case of eBay, to trade and interact). Gravee aspires to do a bit of the same by equitably sharing the value created by search advertising (i.e. content distribution) รข
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