To search or not to search

Avoiding search box results in higher income?

[silverbytes]

In my experience, the google search box results in 10% of my earnings. It's better than 0 but is clearly performing poorly in comparison with adlinks.

I use to put search box at end of pages or in other visible places because I belive helps users find out something they can't actually see or they are lazy to browse. However I understand you get paid when after searching, user clicks on advertising resulting of those search results.

I wonder if completely removing those search box and putting adlinks instead wouldn't result in higher income, since adlinks are those working best on my sites...

Any experiences on this?

[buckworks]

Which would be better for your user's experience?

[ecmedia]

The goal of providing search is not to click on ads but to help them find more information on your website. Income from any clicks should be irrelevant to the issue. If you have a good website people would love to read more and find new information. If you are designing a site just for clicks, you have a problem.

[silverbytes]

As ADLINKS are most clicked I guess adlinks.
Otherwise, searh would be more clicked.

[iwannano1]

Only put search link ad on on the right side and it worked very well for me.

[wyweb]

I like google search. I tried a bunch of other searches, php scripts.. cgi, etc... None of them were as relevant as google though. Plus there was the resource drain, how much horsepower they were using. Most of the search scripts I'd found online were resource intensive and as I was trying to conserve bandwidth, they weren't good options.