Is my little tool doomed to obscurity?
sidsavara: Here comes 5,000 of us again ;)I think it's a great idea, I haven't tried your tool yet myself (it appears to be the ... Hacker News effect).I agree with affiliate linking it to godaddy or something - I imagine you would make a lot of money. Also, get it it's own domain and brand it?  Or get a web designer to do that for you if you are not into that. I don't really like subdomains, but that's just me.You could also affiliate link to hosting websites if you don't already.Another idea - how about make pages of common names?  "Viagra" "Spyware" etc?  Even hacker, java, whatever maybe a separate page for each of the top 500 searchesAnd then you could slap some Adsense ads on there.  These pages would refresh every 24 hours, and I am sure people would bookmark them and/or subscribe for updates.  This way if I was just browsing the site, I might click around between some pages.The problem I see with advertising is that you can't target it very well ("domain searchers" is broad), but you could if you did it this way.Even a "startup" tag would work, and you could then affiliate link to amazon to books with startups (or hand pick some for each tag)These tags might eventually even rank in google, if you made enough of them (make one for every keyword searched, not just the top ones?).  Not for spam purposes: for organization.