Because?

Chris says: “In the end it is the Advertiser who loses. If Sharogle wants to provide a search experience. it can merely redirect their site to Google. Everyone knows where to go to search something.”

And how would they generate income for their users? What would be the reason to even have a website that is directing all searches to a site that evereyone already knows about?

All Sharogle was doing was rotate Adsense for search and keep 50% of the rotations for themselves. Their argument that people who use and make search engines successful must get a cut out of it does not make much sense.

Their operation clearly gives a user to click on someone else’s Adsense for search to earn credits.

In the end it is the Advertiser who loses. If Sharogle wants to provide a search experience. it can merely redirect their site to Google. Everyone knows where to go to search something.

You were not clicking on your own ads, in fact when you made a search you had no idea whose ads were showing up.

Eric said “Google has killed a valiant effort by a company that wanted to let you partake of Google’s profits.”

I think you should rephrase this statement because the site is not dead. As far as I know they are forming new partnerships to make it work.

Also, sharogle is relaunching using a different paid search engine.

Duh????

If it was dumb why did they become so popular One (1) month after launch? I don’t think you understood the idea. What they did with google was they rotated your adsense account so when members search you stand a chance of receiving clicks on your ads. It was in fact a smart idea, however google decided that it was against their adsense policy and blocked ads from the site. Sources said that google didn’t like the “incentive to search” idea, but makes me wonder how companies like blingo.com are still able to use google search since they offer incentives to search big time.