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patio11
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Toolbars and arbitrage.
scott_karana
on Dec 17, 2014
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What arbitrage, exactly?...
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They advertise their own search result pages on Google, then sell a bunch of ads at higher CPC on their page, with the idea being that they'll make enough on the commission from the second ad to pay for the Google ad with a profit.
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Didn't Google cut that out a long time ago? I didn't find any evidence that Ask was still doing this.
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