How do these news web-crawlers thrive?

1 points by JaguarPaw 14y ago ↗ HN

What is the business model for all these web crawlers which fetches the top news from blogs / news websites and display? Do they thrive only on the revenues from ads (or) is there any other means of earning profits ??

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bigphishy 14y ago ↗

The main goal of the news web-crawlers isn't to turn a profit, instead they are doing their thing to provide search engines with the most accurate and recent news in the search results.