I have 2 legitimate questions about this project.
1) Is this search engine going to preform anywhere near as good as google?
2) Once people start getting paid to search I'm sure people are going to do analytics on their income and share this info. We can figure out what keywords has the most advertising revenue. Then people will be making frequent disingenuous searches in hopes of increasing their own income. This behavior will lead to advertisers not making as many sales per click.
If people are not paid for their searches then they will only be searching because they are truly interested in the topic.
--- It's exciting to carve out some of Google's insane profit margins. And I don't like the idea of my searches being tracked, saved, and sold. I do see in their White Paper that they can track your purchase/offer ratio. I'm assuming a person with a lower ratio will be much cheaper to send an offer to. And people with a high purchase ratio will be more expensive.
--- As long as the Search Engine actually performs well it will be successful. Ever try BING? It kinda sucks!
Good observation.
This problem is alot common on an incentivized Blogging platform like Steemit. Lots of people go there with the sole aim of accumulating Steem Dollars. To make matter worse, you get distracted by the constant display of Steem dollars below posts.
Hope Bitclave doesn't repeat thesame mistake
The part about "frequent disingenuous searches", I guess you mean frequent use of click fraud... Bitclave promised to prevent that with some kind of anti fraud algorithm similar to what Google uses to prevent fake clicks.
I love the project. 25million dollars raised so far is an impressive achievement.
