Findwhat.com will represent on their site that they have a large distribution network and that they portal with search engines such as CNET’s Search.com, Excite, Webcrawler, NBCi, MetaCrawler, Dogpile, Go2Net and Microsoft Internet Explorer Autosearch. Give them a call and see for yourself. Thank God I only deposited a mere $25.00 into an account I opened with them over a week ago. I gave them a call to verify the search engines they indicated they portaled with only to be told that they previously did portal with the above search engines, however, right now, there are pending negotiations but they were certain the negotiations were work out in their favor. I stated that if they were in "negotiations" and "negotiations were not final" that they should not be listing on their site that they portal with these search engines. Of course, they tried to talk right through the statement and to put me at ease by telling me they also portaled with hundreds of other "private" sites. Private?....meaning they could not tell me who they were. As I indicated to them, if they are private and I cannot verify them how do I know they exist. Well I was told I would know they existed by the amount of traffic that I would get. Well folks . . . I guess that means they really don't exist because the traffic is worthless. I use Google and everyone knows your traffic on Google is almost instant. I use Overture but am more satisfied with the clicks at Google. I had my FindWhat account up for a week before I received one single click. I am not able to generate reports at FindWhat to find out what keywords are being clicked on either...another sad problem.
My suggestion, run! Do not use FindWhat.
[edited by: seth_wilde at 3:52 pm (utc) on July 7, 2004]
