shorebreak - 6:32 am on Jun 30, 2004 (gmt 0)

JeevesGuy, thanks for your response, but a couple points:

1)65% is the % of ASKJ revenues that come from Google. I admit I haven't read through your quarterly statements, but I *have* heard that number used multiple times. Since you are a search engine, it stands to reason that if 65% of your revenues come from distributing Google AdWords, then 65% of your clicks go to adwords.

2)What's left after Google AdWords distribution (and resulting click-throughs) is ~1%, not the 7-8% number you state. Virtually everyone on this board is saying the same thing, and as another poster said, virtually everyone on this board makes their living on search, mostly as advertisers or companies who are otherwise living or dying based on real clicks and real conversions. So I do think that gives us some legitimacy when the majority of us say that we look at our logs (which by all accounts are the only true arbiter of paid/natural SE traffic) and see ~1% at best, coming from ASKJ. So arguing the point is like arguing that the color red is in fact not red.

Despite all this, I am really rooting for you guys, as more players are better than fewer.