Quality search traffic besides the big 3?

hi guys,

I'm finding Google's clicks getting a bit expensive. Have any of you had any good (profitable ) experience with any 2nd tier search traffic? Looksmart, Ask, 7 Search etc? Everywhere I read seems to say stay away from them because of click fraud issue and non converting traffic.

Just thought I'd ask some black hatters for their opinions...

Cheers,
YoAussie

ask is generally classed as tier1, not so much traffic though, tier2 you are going to have to experiment, here's a list off the top of my head

3fn
revenuepilot
abcsearch
exoclick
peakclick
miva
klikadvertising
search123
searchfeed
umaxfeed
elitistclub
click9
rivaclick
searchanyway

good luck on your quest, its a long journey, also expect 1 engine to do better with some niches than others and the same with different geotargets... sounds fun doesnt it? haha

you might also wanna check the site in my sig, when its live it can do some impressive things to your campaigns (no matter what ppc networks you use)