AI & Search
Seven distinct paths: help readers find more of your own content, add a monetized search experience, build search into an app, offer search under your brand, monetize existing search, license content for AI discovery, or explore sponsored placements in an AI app.
Products
What’s included in AI & Search
Open a product for eligibility, integration, controls and reporting, or add it to your application. Availability and terms are confirmed during your property review.
Direqt AI Site Search
by Direqt
AI-powered search across your own content: natural-language questions, keyword and semantic matching, grounded answers and source links that take readers back to your articles.
- Best for
- Publishers with a deep content archive
- Eligibility
- Assessed for each property when you apply.
- Devices
- Desktop and mobile web
- Integration
- Crawls and indexes your site; onboarding starts with a 1:1 call
- Controls
- Keyword plus semantic search with AI answers
- Reporting
- Direqt dashboard
- Terms
- Revenue share set in your order form. Final terms are in your agreement.
- Also called
Setup & support
- Install
- Our team sets it up
- Support
- Direqt team
- Next step
- Assisted onboarding: our onboarding team will contact you
SearchGPT Connect Widget
by Search.com
A search widget you can add to your pages, with AI answers and clearly identified sponsored links.
- Best for
- Sites adding search without building it
- Eligibility
- Independent creators and large publishers
- Devices
- Shared after we review your property
- Integration
- Embed a small widget on your pages
- Controls
- Ad layouts and placements styled to your site
- Reporting
- Searches, clicks, live earnings and RPM
- Terms
- Earn from monetized search clicks. Final terms are in your agreement.
- Also called
Setup & support
- Install
- Tag on your pages
- Support
- Search.com team
- Next step
- Assisted onboarding: our onboarding team will contact you
SearchGPT API
by Search.com
Build search into your own app or custom experience through an API, with eligibility and monetization terms confirmed during review.
- Best for
- Developers building a custom search experience
- Eligibility
- Publisher sign-up required
- Devices
- Apps and custom web experiences
- Integration
- REST API with an API key
- Controls
- Shared after we review your property
- Reporting
- AI searches, clicks, income per search and estimated payouts
- Terms
- No charge for the API; earnings come only from qualifying monetized searches under your Search.com agreement, not from every API call. Final terms are in your agreement.
- Also called
Setup & support
- Install
- API or feed
- Support
- Search.com team
- Next step
- Assisted onboarding: our onboarding team will contact you
Branded & white-label search
by Advertising.com Search Solutions
White-labeled, monetized search under your brand, built on partnerships with major search providers, with flexible integration for local, regional or global audiences.
- Best for
- Brands, ISPs and portals with their own audience
- Eligibility
- Companies with large local, regional or global user bases
- Devices
- Shared after we review your property
- Integration
- Customizable white-label search integrated into your platform
- Controls
- Customizable branded search interface
- Reporting
- Transparent search revenue and key metrics
- Terms
- Search ad revenue through partnerships with top search engines. Final terms are in your agreement.
- Also called
Setup & support
- Install
- Our team sets it up
- Support
- Advertising.com account team
- Next step
- Assisted onboarding: our onboarding team will contact you
Syndicated search & feeds
by AdMedia
Monetized search feeds and syndicated results for search activity you already have.
- Best for
- Properties with existing search traffic
- Eligibility
- Large sites with many products or services
- Devices
- Shared after we review your property
- Integration
- XML feeds for search, local search and shopping
- Controls
- Shared after we review your property
- Reporting
- AdMedia, via publisher support
- Terms
- Earn from listings and comparison-shopping traffic. Final terms are in your agreement.
- Also called
Setup & support
- Install
- API or feed
- Support
- AdMedia publisher support
- Next step
- Assisted onboarding: our onboarding team will contact you
Content licensing & AI distribution
by Search.com
Earn from content used in AI discovery experiences, with attribution to your pages.
- Best for
- Publishers with original content libraries
- Eligibility
- Assessed for each property when you apply.
- Devices
- Shared after we review your property
- Integration
- Licensed real-time content via RSS feeds and API
- Controls
- No scraping or training without consent
- Reporting
- Search traffic and earnings
- Terms
- Attribution plus ad revenue share when your content is used. Final terms are in your agreement.
- Also called
Setup & support
- Install
- API or feed
- Support
- Search.com team
- Next step
- Assisted onboarding: our onboarding team will contact you
AI App Monetization
Proposed offering
Proposed offering: explore relevant, clearly labeled sponsored placements alongside responses in your AI chat app, assistant or answer engine.
- Best for
- Owners of AI chat apps, assistants and specialist agents
- Eligibility
- AI chat apps, assistants, answer engines and specialist agents. Product owner and status: Product/engineering confirmation pending.
- Devices
- Supported surfaces and formats: Product/engineering confirmation pending.
- Integration
- Integration method and contextual-data handling: Product/engineering confirmation pending. No SDK is available.
- Controls
- Publisher controls (categories, frequency, placement): Product/engineering confirmation pending.
- Reporting
- Reporting: Product/engineering confirmation pending.
- Terms
- Advertiser demand/coverage, revenue model and payout terms: Product/engineering confirmation pending. Earnings are not generated by every query or API call.
- Also called
Setup & support
- Install
- Our team sets it up
- Support
- Search.com team
- Next step
- Assisted onboarding: our onboarding team will contact you
Related offerings
More search products
Swicki by Eurekster adds a search box to your pages with the current swicki_v2.js tag. Quicklaunch adds suggestions before the search and placements during it, part of monetizing search activity you already have.
Swicki by Eurekster
by AdMedia
A Swicki search box for your pages, added with the current swicki_v2.js tag and managed in My Swikis.
- Best for
- Community and niche-topic sites
- Eligibility
- Publishers and bloggers
- Devices
- Shared after we review your property
- Integration
- Add the current Swicki tag (swicki_v2.js) to your pages
- Controls
- Manage your search boxes in My Swikis
- Reporting
- AdMedia, via publisher support
- Terms
- Set in the product agreement
- Also called
Setup & support
- Install
- Tag on your pages
- Support
- AdMedia publisher support
- Next step
- Assisted onboarding: our onboarding team will contact you
Quicklaunch
by AdMedia
Search suggestions before the search, as people type, and relevant placements during the search.
- Best for
- Start pages, toolbars and portals
- Eligibility
- Content networks, universities, corporations and other institutions
- Devices
- Shared after we review your property
- Integration
- Account setup; site search with Before and During the Search ads
- Controls
- Branded styling and advanced management controls
- Reporting
- AdMedia, via publisher support
- Terms
- Set in the product agreement
- Also called
Setup & support
- Install
- Self-serve in your account
- Support
- AdMedia publisher support
- Next step
- Assisted onboarding: our onboarding team will contact you
Compare paths
Seven needs, seven different paths
Site search, a search widget, the SearchGPT API, branded search, search feeds, content licensing and AI app monetization solve different problems. Start from the need that matches yours.
| Your need | Path | Answers come from | Where it runs | How you earn | Next step |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Help readers discover my own content | Direqt AI Site Searchby Direqt | Your published articles | The search box on your site | Engagement with your content. Sponsored placements only where supported. | |
| Add a monetized search experience to my pages | SearchGPT Connect Widgetby Search.com | AI answers and web results | A widget on your pages | Clearly identified sponsored links. Terms are set in your agreement. | |
| Build search into my app or custom experience | SearchGPT APIby Search.com | AI answers and web results via API | Your app or custom interface | Monetization terms are set in your agreement. | |
| Offer search under my own brand | Branded & white-label searchby Advertising.com Search Solutions | Web results under your brand | Your branded search page | Sponsored results. Terms are set in your agreement. | |
| Monetize search activity I already have | Syndicated search & feedsby AdMedia | Your existing search traffic | Feeds and placements before and during search | Sponsored results and placements. | |
| Earn from content used in AI discovery | Content licensing & AI distributionby Search.com | Your content, licensed to AI partners | Partner AI experiences, with attribution | Agreed revenue participation. | |
| Monetize my AI app or assistant | AI App MonetizationProposed offering | Your AI app’s responses (not your site search) | Inside your AI chat app or assistant | Sponsored cards beside responses. Model pending confirmation. | Register interest |
Getting started
Three steps to launch
- 1
Tell us about your property
Share your site or app, audience and the products you picked in a short application.
- 2
Review the right products
We confirm which of these products fit, plus eligibility and compatibility.
- 3
Implement and launch
Add the tag, plugin, SDK, feed or API each product uses, with support from our team.
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