Is search box good or bad

I have heard that every time a visitor uses search box, your adsense account is charged a small fee. Do you guys think it is still good to have a search box

 

I heard Elvis was still alive ... huh?

I've never heard this, don't believe it and question why you would bring it up to begin with.

I heard - from where?

I read - from where?

If you're going to believe everything you hear and read before exercising a little skepticism and discretion, I'd like to sell you London Bridge.

Further, if that's your concern, then don't use it.

 

Search box is free.

 

Its true but the cost is hardly anything and thus cannot be a reason for not using the search box on your site.

https://www.google.com/support/adse...en-uk:search&query=cost+search&topic=0&type=f

 

Where do you have heard this...... do not believe what you heard.
I have heard that google giving free 100$ each to their clients..

Have u read this in their TOS of adsence.

 

The guy above you clarified its just for a small percent of people who get a lot of searches per day

 

I only getting a few searches on my google search bar, and it doesn't pay that well but the clickthrough rate is very high. I say what the heck its free money.

 

I use FreeFind. It's *fully customizable*, indexes *ALL the pages you want*, you receive weekly reports, your visitors remain in your site and I never saw a glitch in 6 years.

 

search box does nothing for me.

 

What I always tell people is this: Get your own 3rd party (free) site search tool and place contextual ads on your results page. Set it up so the search term comes up in the url/pagename/wherever you can, so the ad logic has something to contextualize from.

 

I use FreeFind as well.
No problems here.

 

earncef - I stand correct and apologize. It apparently is true, but as sachin points out in response quoting Google:

- you are never charged more than their take, hence you'll never "owe" them
- this affects less than %1; unless your site is generating that much traffic, I doubt you're in that bracket

 

I'm using the search box and the money it makes isn't too bad

 

I've noticed an increase in my search click payouts over the last month or so. Not sure if it is just coincidence. Any one else in the same boat?

 

I earn .30 cents a month from the searches. Google can have it as long as I get to use their search boxes.