Quite an interesting product. I typed a competitor's name in and immediately saw a huge list of ads they were running. Very helpful in just ten seconds!
As an aside, we're hiring engineers: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3160100" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3160100</a><p>We're working on interesting problems at scale, like crawling the web and big data analytics. If this sounds interesting, it's worth reaching out :).
We're pysched to be in on this one. <a href="http://blog.raaventures.com/post/14220926611/raaventuresinvestinmixrank" rel="nofollow">http://blog.raaventures.com/post/14220926611/raaventuresinve...</a>
Looking forward to working with Scott and Ilya
I get how they can crawl ads. But how do they figure out the most effective ad? The only thing I can think of is that the most effective ad is the most frequent one. But that isn't necessarily true.
<i>MixRank’s search engine for AdSense crawls pages running Google ads, indexing effectiveness data and estimating ad performance.</i><p>That's strange. Crawling Google's ads is prohibited by robots.txt and their terms of service. And Google tends to enforce this kind of rules.