On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:06:03 EDT, der Mouse said: > hasn't been true for a long time. The actual situation is that people > performing searches are the product and the advertisers are the > customers; the search results are just the coin in which the searchers > are paid for being part of the product.
Amen to that. Consider this mail I got today: Subject: Fall for incredible back to school deals on Bing cashback! From: Bing cashback <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:09:12 -0700 (PDT) And I don't even *use* Bing - I got that because I set up an MSN account to IM with a relative (was easier than getting somebody on another continent connected to an IM service I was already on), and I apparently missed the "Don't spam me" checkbox along the way...
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