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

Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 9:11 pm
by bllott
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.

:)

Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 10:40 pm
by no1shah
Tell somthing more about your requirements?????????????

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 12:03 am
by bllott
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?

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 12:12 am
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!

Rand

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 10:18 am
by bllott
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.

Why not a PostNuke?

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 11:40 am
by jeanloui
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?

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 1:09 pm
by bllott
"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?

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 1:14 pm
by grudz
try terrapaymenst.com......i heard they have better rates and better in general

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 1:48 pm
by jeanloui
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...

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 3:46 pm
by bllott
try terrapaymenst.com......i heard they have better rates and better in general
I can't access that url

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 3:48 pm
by bllott
jeanloui thanks i'll take a look at that

Further ideas and comments are appreciated

and remember me...

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 3:55 pm
by jeanloui
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:

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 4:19 pm
by John Cartwright
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 :)

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 4:46 pm
by jeanloui
Phenom wrote:PN moduling is not the best way to go
in your opinion

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 5:33 pm
by bllott
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.