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Originally Posted by Trevor Matthews
Sounded good, right up until I read on your web-site that there are adverts next to the results!
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We actually don't show any ads right now. We're just hoping to get people to try out the tool. We simply reserve the right to show ads in the future.
Why? Because search is an expensive technical problem (we currently run systems combining more than 1 terabyte of RAM and 100 terabytes of redundant storage). At some point we have to make money to support our costs. If we do start showing ads, we'll split the advertising revenues similar to Google custom search. We would also let users know well ahead of time, if that time comes.
Thanks
Jacques