Seems like vertical search is back to being a hot topic these days.
As you probably know, I’m now posting all my non-shopping comparison engine related vertical search stories over at Search Engine Land. At the same time, I’m continuing to run ComparisonEngines and have successfully launched SingleFeed (hope to close a seed round - looking for $150K-$200K - in the next month).
At the same time, I’ve suddenly gotten a number of offers to buy www.verticalsearch.net. I’m now officially considering selling the domain…this doesn’t mean I’m leaving vertical search behind…just don’t need to post my thoughts here when I have platforms like Search Engine Land.
So, anyone interested?
-I obviously think there’s value in creating the premier vertical search blog - ComparisonEngines.com gets aprx. 300,000 page views per month on just shopping search posts which means if I got a $10CPM , I could make $36K off the site/year - VerticalSearch.net could hit a much broader audience (video search, picture search, travel search, local search, job search, news search, etc.) and therefore be much much bigger.
-A directory is a nice idea
-An Info.com type of service that aggregates vertical search services.
But I think there are even bigger opportunities. Yes, the .net extension isn’t ideal, but it’s still a pretty good domain name and the offers I’ve received have been fairly attractive.
If you’re interested, make me an offer: ‘brian at verticalsearch.net’. Maybe I’ll put it up on eBay.
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