How much can you earn with an internet buzz ?

Viral marketing, internet buzz, buzz marketing. All these words are covering the same broad subject for an internet web site : how to generate lots of traffic very quickly ?

This is replacing slowly the "old good spam" in your email box. Indeed, information coming from one of your friend is more likely to be read than the famous "enlarge your penis" spam from an indian guy called "Nuvatu Gardesh".

Well the question is, can you make a lot of money with an internet buzz ?

First, I would like to make the distinction between a real company, selling real products or services and that would like to make people know about itself, and internet web sites designed only to generate a maximum of traffic and therefore maximise google adsense revenues.

My goal is to focus on the second one. Yesterday, I received an email from one of my friend with this link, that probably most of you know : www.humanforsale.com

The idea is funny, people like it because it is talking about them, they will come only once but we don't care, it did not take too much time to create it. So everything is gathered to make a good internet buzz.

Let's take a look at the figures. Today, there has been 15.3 millions human sold :

- Pessimistic case :

- The number of visitors is equal to the number of human sold (minimum number of visitors) that is to say 15.3 millions.

- The CTR (click transformation rate) is equal to 0.5%

- Google adsense pays 20 cents per click.

15 300 000 * 0.005 * 0.20 = $ 15 300

- More optimistic case :

- The number of visitors is equal to 1.5 times the number of human sold (1/3 of the visitors has not been through the selling process)

- The CTR is equal to 1.5%

- Google adsense pays 50 cents per click

15 300 000 * 1.5 * 0.015 * 0.5 = $ 172 125.


So. For a good webmaster, this internet site is to my mind just a matter of 2 days development. In 2 days and some more time dedicated to ad for this site, the webmaster has earned between $ 15 300 and $ 172 125, and I am pretty sure a bit more.

There are realy great deals to make quickly on the internet. The good idea, at the right time can make you rich !

How to Cuil ?

So here we are, Mr. Cuil ! Let's see what you can do !

Your creators claim that the internet has reached a point where there are so much data that "simply googling" on site's popularity does not stick to our needs. And that's absolutely true !

Here is the business concept of Cuil :
- The web has became huge, but everything must be referenced, so that even if a page is impopular, it should be found by someone
- As I said, popularity is one thing but does not make the whole thing. Especialy when you are looking for something very precise, you do not care about popularity but more about accuracy and context
- Organization : One word can have so many meanings that Cuil pretends to classify research hits in categories, so that you can filter and make your search more precise.
- Cuil says it has a good privacy policy, compared to google that sells your personal data and search habit to companies for a good price !

And so, what's in reality ? First of all, I find that Cuil's start page has a pure, classy and simple design. Such as Google there are no adverts. Moreover, this entire black page will save some K watts.

So let's have a try. I typed in "busine" and then, some suggestions came down related to my search. Not too bad, but already done in Google.


After having chosen "Business Opportunities" (great !) the search came out with... 20,597,858 results. Around 64,000,000 for Googles. Does that mean it is more accurate, or only that it has not referenced as many pages as Google ? I gave a try just down there.

In the search results, this is where Cuil reveals all its power. First of all the results layout is much better, with a better site's preview (some pictures added).

Moreover, there are some tabs helping you precising your search :


And some drilldown functionalities that help you sort your results by categories :


Mmmm, Burger King, a business opportunity ? You will have to explain that to me, Cuil !

Finaly, I have tried to find my own name : 23 results in Google, all relevant and... none in Cuil. Apparently, it seems that despite what its creators' are claiming, Google seems to have a bit of advance in terms of indexing.

Even if this product is still young and needs to prove its capabilities and resistance to the market, I think that I will use it for some days to see if it really helps me finding quicker what I want !

Google's end ?

I like going from one link to another on the internet, and what I like the most is when I find articles on completely crazy ideas.

Today, some former Google engineers have launched a new search engine called cuil, that they hope will upstage Google !!!

Here is the link I have been through : http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2008/07/28/ex_google_engineers_debut_cuill_way_to_search/

This search engines pretends to be different from Google but will it be sufficent enough to make the difference ? We are so used to Google that any new search engine encounters a high resistance to change... I will have a look at it and will post a message tomorrow with my conclusions !

Want to have a try ?
http://www.cuil.com