Wired News: Next for BitTorrent: Search
"SAN FRANCISCO -- Whiz kid inventor Bram Cohen and a small cadre of developers and entrepreneurs are in the final stage of launching an advertising-supported search engine dedicated to cataloging and indexing the thousands of movies, music tracks, software programs and other files for download over Cohen's popular BitTorrent protocol.
The free search tool will be the first large-scale commercial offering from BitTorrent, a five-person company headed by Cohen that so far has drawn most of its revenue from T-shirt sales and PayPal donations.
The ranked search results will be accompanied by sponsored links provided through a partnership with Oakland, California, company Ask Jeeves, says Ashwin Navin, BitTorrent's chief operating officer. BitTorrent will make money from each clickthrough. 'Ask Jeeves syndicates our advertising products to many different sites, and BitTorrent will be one of them,' confirmed Ask Jeeves spokeswoman Darcy Cobb." (more at link)
BitTorrent is a great tool, anything that makes finding downloads quicker/easier is bonus dollars, in my book.
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The free search tool will be the first large-scale commercial offering from BitTorrent, a five-person company headed by Cohen that so far has drawn most of its revenue from T-shirt sales and PayPal donations.
The ranked search results will be accompanied by sponsored links provided through a partnership with Oakland, California, company Ask Jeeves, says Ashwin Navin, BitTorrent's chief operating officer. BitTorrent will make money from each clickthrough. 'Ask Jeeves syndicates our advertising products to many different sites, and BitTorrent will be one of them,' confirmed Ask Jeeves spokeswoman Darcy Cobb." (more at link)
BitTorrent is a great tool, anything that makes finding downloads quicker/easier is bonus dollars, in my book.
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