The main reason that we didn't write an ad engine ourselves is that we would rather spend our time coding LimeWire. There are the server load issues and everything as well, but it's also just a whole separate piece of code to maintain, especially when you get into detailed reporting to advertisers.
Cydoor has all of this set up, and they also have established relationships with advertisers. Advertising is their full-time job, whereas we prefer not to deal with this stuff.
So, that's the story. We were also never claiming that Cydoor did not keep track of its views/click throughs, etc. There would be absolutely no way for Cydoor to sell advertising if that were the case. It does detailed reporting, again, just like the banner at the top of this page does detailed reporting. |