How would on make a pay-per-click search engine?

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How would on make a pay-per-click search engine?

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I am interested in making a pay-per-click search engine.

Any ideas, suggestions? Any ideas on how to begin?

Any comments on how pay-per-click search engines work?

Links to sample scripts are appreciated if available.

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Tell somthing more about your requirements?????????????
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Thanks, I am thinking along these lines:

1. People register their sites and have user accounts
2. They bid on words
3. Regular visitors search for the words, click
4. Registered sites are charged per each click according to their bid.

How would I make something like that?
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Post by kanshou »

I'm not sure about the coding aspect, but in the theoretical realm, it would have to check against their IPs or a cookie in order to make sre you didn't get 1 a-hole that likes to cick on the same guy's link and run his bill through the roof. just 1 thing I noticed off hand, good luck with your project!

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Thank you for your suggestion,

I am currently making a plan of all the functions required to make this work, and I have decided that to begin, I must work on a database to store user accounts and information. Any suggestions on designing this database?

Any other suggestions regarding the overall idea are appreciated.
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Why not a PostNuke?

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bllott wrote: How would I make something like that?
I'm into PostNuke CMS.

http://www.postnuke.com
http://imagicweb.com

There is nothing like this on PostNuke, but it's a good platform to begin from (IMO).

PN gives you a lot of features already solved (member registry, login, content, users and gropus management, etc, etc.) and there are also some "payement" modules available.

"Pay per click" means (IMO) to have a "filled-pre-payed" account, and then "discount" each click-for-search, isnt it?
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"Pay per click" means (IMO) to have a "filled-pre-payed" account, and then "discount" each click-for-search, isnt it?
Yes, that's one way this thing could work. I though about using Paypal for something like this.. Any ideas or experiences on working with Paypal?
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Post by grudz »

try terrapaymenst.com......i heard they have better rates and better in general
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bllott wrote:
Any ideas or experiences on working with Paypal?
PostNuke has a "payement" module (not free as the rest of the portal) that allow "paypal" registerd members:

http://www.postnukemodules.com/
http://portalzine.de

Then, the pay-per-click can be done with another PostNuke module hack...
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try terrapaymenst.com......i heard they have better rates and better in general
I can't access that url
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jeanloui thanks i'll take a look at that

Further ideas and comments are appreciated
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and remember me...

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bllott wrote: i'll take a look at that
you're welcome... and remember me

a) when you install a PN site
and/or
b) when you become a millionaire :roll:
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PN moduling is not the best way to go unless you like headaches :S.

Good luck on this project, sounds like fun. If you need a hand with some coding I'll throw a few lines here and there :)
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Phenom wrote:PN moduling is not the best way to go
in your opinion
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you're welcome... and remember me

a) when you install a PN site
and/or
b) when you become a millionaire
long way to go lol.
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