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PPC Engine - legitimate or not?

         

intervelopers

4:33 pm on Jan 3, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Hi All!

I have a little problem: I'm promoting a family of relatively specific products. I'm advertising on the most PPC's. What troubles me is that I'm getting a huge number of hits from blowsearch.com - when I visit it, it appears to be quite a normal meta search engine.

The number of hits is what troubles me: blowsearch sends me more than Google AdWords, Overture and FindWhat send alltogether.

So, has anybody heard where these guys pull their traffic from? Also, which PPC are they getting results from? I tracked that some of their searches are served by MyGeek, but I do not advertise there.

What also troubles me is that all the hits just request the main page, graphics, JS and does not browse anywhere else.

Mike_Mackin

4:35 pm on Jan 3, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Is the KW listed in the directory on the index page?

intervelopers

6:50 pm on Jan 3, 2003 (gmt 0)

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no, it is not.

As I said, the software is quite specific.

sinbad

8:12 pm on Jan 3, 2003 (gmt 0)

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is it that blowsearch are maybe linked with gator

Nieder3d

9:46 pm on Jan 7, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Blowsearch serves pop up ads with cpc listings in them. As far as I know it is supposed to be keyword related but not search initiated.
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cornwall

10:56 pm on Jan 7, 2003 (gmt 0)

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According to their site

You may also notice on occasion that searches may take a little longer than expected, but we are pulling data from almost twenty popular engines, and if they are delayed or there is a lot of data, it will delay our search.

Well that's what they put in their blurb. In practice I found their search results meaningless. I cannot imagine that many people would get much satisfaction from using it, big NO vote here :(

cornwall

11:01 pm on Jan 7, 2003 (gmt 0)

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You will find out more about them at mygeek.com where the searches default