I'm sure there is already search engines that pay you. I've seen a few about. Just it's very little and their results are really bad.
i just remembered! there is one search engine that pays! I've joined it before. I have a link of it at my blog site. It is called something like agloc? or agoloc? The link is at the side bar located at the right side of the webpage. ttp://alinkperpost.blogspot.com/
Hmm, that's rather easily done? You'd get Google Adsense for search. Then you log how much a user enters queries and uses the google search and pass him a % of the income you get from that. He can never check that, so you can pass him 5% and he'll still be happy he got some cash instead of nothing... 10 to 20% of the queries results in a click on advertisement, if not more. Regular internet users use Google 10 times per day. By "using" I mean view a Google results page. Because you often click on a result from your search, find out it's not the one, press "back", and try the next result. So that's 2 queries Results from the Adsense for Google search are the same as regular google. Only the lay-out is slightly different. I believe the other major search website have a similar thing going on. Hmm did some calculation, you could offer people $0.005 per search and still make a profit. So it's not a lot of cash, the deal with ask.com in this thread sounds better
Well yes and no. You'd have adsense ads on top of the search results. So visitors are more likely to click on the ads. When you do a search that has no ads, nothing will show. You'll see only the search results. But if there are ads, often they are extremely relevant and often they are exactly what you're looking for. That's because a lot of people search for silly stuff like brand names. They search for "Nike" if they want to visit www.nike.com ... Don't ask me why, it's just the way it is. (You can also see some of the stats that people search for in the admin panel btw) Anyway, that's not an answer to your question:Would you have to click to get paid on this? Visitors click on the ads eventually. So all you have to do is make a calculation on what would be profitable for you to share revenue. But I agree that could be tricky, people could start searching just to increase their amount of searches... That would be bad But that problem you'd also have on the ask.com thing. Cause they would result in 'invalid clicks/results'...
Little bit confused with what you are saying, I think I understand. Thanks for your thoughts, Just too clear things up, Ask.com are paying for searches only no clicks required