Ahrefs is working on general purpose search engine to compete with Google. Sounds crazy, right?
But lets talk about two huge problems with Google which they will never want to fix:
Dmytro Gerasymenko πΊπ¦
289 posts
Dmytro Gerasymenko πΊπ¦
@botsbreeder
- Talking about search and profit share on Medium medium.com/swlh/investor-β¦
- Ahrefs is getting closer to publicly promoting the Web Search Engine we are working on. In case you missed the previous announcement β the point of our search engine is to share ad revenue with content creators 90/10. With 90% going to creators.
- We just received some powerful toys to keep enhancing and advancing both Ahrefs and Yep
- Officially out on @TechCrunch: Ahrefs builds Yep.com, a private search engine that will share 90% of advertising profits. techcrunch.com/2022/06/03/yepβ¦
- Based on our latest tests, @ahrefs now has a larger keywords index and shows more organic traffic data than any competitor. So we're thinking to loosen up the "top50 positions" limit for Standard accounts. Just 1k retweets and we'll open "top100 positions" on Standard :)
- Ahrefs is preparing to stop renewing around 15% of legacy subscriptions consuming the most data so we can serve everyone else better. Somewhere around 2 years ago, account sharing and data scraping became a big issue for us when a sudden jump in number of requests could overload
- To clarify, what you refer to as "events in Ukraine" is actually βRussian aggression against Ukraine". You are a Russian company (100% of founders and 2/3 of staff) with a "sales office" in the US to enjoy access to US financial markets and US customers.
We share in the global concern for todayβs events in Ukraine. As a US company with operations across the globe, we strongly oppose any act of war anywhere on the planet. 
- Replying to @botsbreederBy the way, situation is actually even worse than just taking all the profit, Google is showing scraped content on search results page more and more so that you don't even need to visit a website in many cases, which reduces content authors' opportunity to monetize.
- Replying to @botsbreederPutting away the lyricism, what we plan to do is to launch a search engine with commitment to privacy and 90/10 profit share model, meaning 90% goes to content creators, leaving 10% for expenses and profit.
- Ahrefs' supercomputer is now up and running! Measured 20 petaFLOPS in LINPACK benchmark. It would rank somewhere around the 30th place in the recent top 500 supercomputers list. We are also just a few steps away from releasing cool AI features. And it's not another content
- Replying to @botsbreederFirst one is obviously privacy and it was discussed so much that I will switch to the second one - profit share. Google is making $100B from its search service. Imagine they suddenly implement 90/10 profit share model sending $90B per year to publishers who create content.
