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New Search Engine Will Donate Revenues to Charity
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Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - March 21, 2006 - Some survivors of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita have created a new search engine which will donate up to half of all paid ad revenue (not just profits) to sponsoring charities.
The search engine is entitled, Million Dollar City Pages, and has only recently launched. Accoring to the company, the search engine will provide solutions to search engine "spam" and click fraud.
Thomas Straub, a Co-founder of Million Dollar City Pages explained, ''When we first came up with this idea we had three main goals: for advertisers - to provide a spam-free and click-fraud-free advertising service; for visitors - a fast, convenient and trustworthy way to find information; and finally for our sponsoring charities - to provide them with recognition and necessary funds to help victims of natural and man-made disasters.''
The founders were all victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and wanted to develop a business that would generate revenue and afford them to give something back to the community. Up to half of all paid ad revenue (not just profits) is slated to be given to sponsoring charities.
One of the differentiators of the new service is that humans will review all submitted ads before they are entered into the company's search engine database. Other major search engines use automated "spiders" (robots) to eliminate search engine spam after-the-fact already existing in their databases, and are not always successful.
The company offers permanent "pay-once-only" ads that break the link between the ad price and the number of clicks per ad, thus eliminating the potential for click fraud. According to the company, click fraud can be a major "wallet drain" for advertisers due to "malicious clicks" on their ads bought from other search engines.
Advertisers pay only for graphical pixel ads priced solely by size, not location. However, prominent visual spots on the city-page pixel maps are likely to go fast, as they are sold on a first-come, first-served basis. Advertisers also get textual global and local U.S. city search engine listings included at no extra cost.
The company's intention is to keep advertiser's pixels and search engine listings displayed permanently, and have already registered their domains for five years.
To learn more about the new search engine, please visit: www.milliondollarcitypages.com.
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