Searching.com Flirts with BitTorrent Sites
Written by Ernesto on October 07, 2006Searching.com is still trying to keep their traffic up by generating incoming traffic from BitTorrent sites. This way searching.com appears to be a pretty popular search engine based on Alexa’s traffic rank, while in fact most of the traffic is coming from redirected torrent searches.
At the moment Torrentreactor is responsible for almost 90% of searching’s traffic.
Searching’s traffic was even higher last year, when they were still working with torrentspy. However, torrentspy and searching abruptly ended this partnership and searching’s traffic dropped like a stone.
But searching is still on the lookout for new partnerships. A few weeks ago Demonoid.com teamed-up with searching. Searching pays demonoid for their annoying “search block” that’s embedded in the demonoid design. Not as drastic as redirecting the search traffic, but still good enough to boost their traffic rank a bit, and advertise their “updated” seach portal.
But Searching also employs a more aggressive approach. Recently they offered some torrent admins to buy their site. There were plans to overtake myBitTorrent and other torrent sites for example. myBitTorrent seriously considered the bid from searching, but the deal eventually bounced.
The bottom line is, BitTorrent sites are attractive partners for companies that are in need of traffic. A while ago we reported that the ad-company “targepoint” was attempting to take over several BitTorrent sites. Although Targetpoint officially denied these claims, they’re not the only one flirting with these traffic monsters.
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you ever tried to talk to searching.com about their business? i did… wondered if they’d be interested in ads on my own site about six months ago. got the snottiest, rudest, pissiest email back from them telling me not to bother and to stop contacting them. a**holes. so i dug a bit deeper. and you know who runs searching.com? john gotts. a guy who threatened spybot search and destroy with taking away their name cos he reckoned he owned the trademark. a guy who buys up domains like wiki.com and tries to profit off misdirected traffic and use the wiki name for his own profit.
http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/inboxcop/
he probably needs to work on getting his page impressions back up:
http://www.alexaholic.com/wiki.com+searching.com
That search bar was insanely annoying…all I can say is ‘I love you’ to the RIP extension!!!
seems all john gott’s partnerships end ubruptly. he’s not been successful in anything.. so no real story here..
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