How to Start a... Pay Per Click Search Engine Business
A Pay Per Click (PPC) search website business takes advantage of one of the hottest Internet advertising trends - advertising in web search engines and web directories.
Pay per click search engines operate in two different methods, the first is to offer the sale of "keywords" - as people search for that keyword and click on a link, you get paid by the advertiser. The other way is to offer search service with advertising on the side targeted by keyword.
Overture.com invented the large scale pay-per-click search engine. This technology has been successfully implemented by hundreds of company. Entering this business means competing against the likes of Google.
There is software on the Internet that let's you create your own pay per click search engine.
Hyperseek
Hyperseek is one of the most popular Pay-Per-Click (PPC) software script solutions available for starting your own PPC business. It is reasonable priced and looks like it is easy to implement for someone with webhosting skills (they offer installation services as well). You can find it here - http://www.hyperseek.com
SoftBiz
SoftBiz software solutions has a PHP based PPC search engine you can use for your PPC business. http://www.softbizscripts.com/pay-per-click-script-features.php
Smart Search
Smart Search is another PHP based PPC search engine which is inexpensive and has a lot of valuable features. Check out their site here - http://www.smarterscripts.com/smartsearch/
There are countless other PPC Search Engine scripts available for you to start your PPC business.