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Searcher-advertiser-creator utopia

Allow users to earn money from their attention and time, and creators earn money for their creations and advertiser's receive accurate targeting
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The internet suffers from a collective action problem that accelerate the web to low quality.

Search engines need to raise money to pay the expense of all their servers so they place adverts on terms. The placement is not always beneficial to the user.

Creators such as bloggers and news websites and information websites need to earn money to keep the website running and to fund time for creating.

They place adverts too to pay for their costs.

So what does a utopia look similar to?

I believe creators should be paid a market going rate for their creations. I believe searchers should be paid for their attention or time used looking at advertiser's creations. I believe users should be capable of commissioning creations ala Patreon.

I propose people start a profile that is accurate and allows them to be targeted to what they want.

Search traffic is public information, not only kept private by the search engines.

People can comment on the results of the queries as a whole and on individual results. This is an idea in its own right. Annotated search results. People can vote on changes to the ranking of results.

People can leave reviews of creations and advertisements.

People pay an amount to cover the costs of the creations.

The price of users attention is similar to the pay for impression or pay for click rate and is market defined.

Someone could set their price too high for them to see any adverts.

You could also have a system of affiliate marketing where the person who referred you receives a reward for referring you somewhere.

chronological, Jun 07 2022

https://www.theways...-searching-the-web/ [a1, Jun 07 2022]

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       Consider the internet like a conversation space.   

       If I meet you in the street and say "hi [chron] how are you today? Did you hear the results of the vote last night? Which way did it go?" that is the analogue of me sitting on my greasey arse typing "last night vote resluts" into a glowing screen and reading the response "did you mean results"?   

       Now the glowing machine might also show me an advert "click here for more sluts" "night sluts specially for you" "how long can you last?" etc...   

       And we think this is normal (see: the posted idea)   

       But if you stood in the street and responded to my cheery chat like that I would stare in horror and back away and possibly call the police.
pocmloc, Jun 07 2022
  

       I want to hear more about the night sluts.
Voice, Jun 07 2022
  
      
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