custom search engine violations?

i see plenty of sites thats using custom search engine to find rapidshare, warez, and porn.....how do these go undetected ?

ex. searchshared.com

 

better to be inline with TOS, then we are safe

 

I don't think its ilegal to find rapidshare using google. That custom searches that you point, finally just use google to find some material indexed by Google. I think its not again TOS.

 

what if the custom search engine, crawled specific warez sites?

 

Anyone can search any site they want in Google by using the site: command after there keyword..
Setting up a CSE to search a particular site is not against there TOS, if it were, then they would not give you the option to do it when creating a new CSE.

If you choose to set up a CSE that searches a particular warez site, and Google bans the warez site from its index, then I guess your CSE will no longer work.

If you were to set up a CSE that searches a particular warez site, and then "promote" it as a way to find "illegal" content, then I think you may run into some problems... (but I am not 100% sure)

If you set up a CSE to search a particular warez site, and promote it as a way to search for "information" contained within that site, then It should be OK.

I have a rapidshare search engine, and I have made it quite clear that its not intended to be used as a way of finding illegal or pirated content.
But I have no control over what people use it for, and I don't think it is any of my business.

Cheers
James

 

have you any success in generaating revenue from CSE ?

 

No.
I already spent yesterdays earnings... on a cup of coffee.

Having a CSE based site is not going to make a lot of money unless you are getting millions of visitors a month. And if you are getting millions of visitors a month, then server costs will also rise.

My site has a current Alexa rank under 50k... I get over 100k visitors a month, and over 20k searches are done every day using the CSE.
On a good day, I make enough to buy 2 cups of coffee.

Making money from the site was not my main intention, I built the site for fun, and the coffee is just a bonus.

Cheers
James

 

cant you put your own ads like intersyial and popups?

 

Pop ups are annoying and would only make people want to leave the site and not return.
I haven't heard of intersyial.

Like I said above, I made the site for fun, and hope people find it useful.
If the site ever started getting over a million visitors a month, then I will look at other ways of monetizing it.
For now, I am happy that people are using it.

Cheers
James