Comments on: Should Google Pay Me to Be Listed? http://www.jasonunger.com/2008/05/06/should-google-pay-me-to-be-listed/ Welcome to my lifestream Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:37:25 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jakob Nielsen http://www.jasonunger.com/2008/05/06/should-google-pay-me-to-be-listed/comment-page-1/#comment-420 Jakob Nielsen Tue, 06 May 2008 19:41:15 +0000 http://www.jasonunger.com/?p=353#comment-420 Well, if a site makes $5M from visitors coming from search engine A, but site engine B offers $10M for an exclusive, then the correct decision is to go with B, particularly since some of the A traffic will change to B if the exclusivity campaign is successful. If search engine B spent, say, $10 billion (20% of the budget Microsoft was willing to pay for Yahoo's small search share), then they could probably get quite a lot of high-value sites to give them an exclusive. Well, if a site makes $5M from visitors coming from search engine A, but site engine B offers $10M for an exclusive, then the correct decision is to go with B, particularly since some of the A traffic will change to B if the exclusivity campaign is successful.

If search engine B spent, say, $10 billion (20% of the budget Microsoft was willing to pay for Yahoo's small search share), then they could probably get quite a lot of high-value sites to give them an exclusive.

]]> By: Aaron Wakling http://www.jasonunger.com/2008/05/06/should-google-pay-me-to-be-listed/comment-page-1/#comment-419 Aaron Wakling Tue, 06 May 2008 16:46:53 +0000 http://www.jasonunger.com/?p=353#comment-419 Good Blog. I will continue reading it in the future. Nice layout too. Aaron Wakling Good Blog. I will continue reading it in the future. Nice layout too.

Aaron Wakling

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