Compete

In 1998, an entrepreneur named Bill Gross started a revolutionary new search engine that created the business of paid search, and was acquired by Yahoo. Google quickly adopted the paid search model, grew to become the largest search engine. Bill also had another big idea. In 2000, he created Compete.com to organize the clicks we all make on the Web. The vision was simple: if we all share our clicks, then each of us gets smarter by knowing what's happening across the Web. Today, search engines help us find sites, but they fall short of showing how safe, popular and valuable a site is. Through click-sharing, Compete extends search algorithms by tapping the collective online experiences of millions of people.Compete.com helps you personally benefit from click-sharing by protecting you from dangerous sites, profiling each website you visit, and showing you promo codes that will save you money at checkout, Compete wants to help create a more trusted, transparent, and valuable Internet.