Graywolf wrote:
The internet never died, it was just buried in inane crap.
graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" -----------------------------------
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Graywolf mused:
Thanks too all for the search suggestions.
I can tell you ebay is taking over the web. For instance a search for "kodacraft" (the developing tank with the plastic aprons) gets 188 hits. Add "-ebay" and it drops to 40. Add "-auction" as well and it drops to 25. That is 87% of the hits are ebay related. Worse because some of the remainders are the webpages ebay auctions refer to. Even if you are looking to buy something from ebay 90%+ of those references are to out of date auctions.
And eBay has been taken over by bottom-feeding dealers, trying to sell
new merchandise at buy-it-now prices no better than can be found from
reputable on-line merchants.
Those aren't really "auctions" - they have a reserve price the same as
the buy-it-now price, and effectively unlimited items available for sale.
BTW, didn't ebay buy out google a couple of years back?
No.
Try using the web to search for something like an out-of-print CD sometime,
especially one that was originally a low-volume small-market release.
Almost every link you find will turn out, after two or three clicks, to be
a link to an Amazon Storefront (quite often the same storefront will show up
in many different guises, with the same content wrapped in different skins).
They all show the product in their list of available titles, and you only
find it's out of stock, special order after another couple of clicks.
I discovered this, the hard way, when trying to get hold of a copy of Broceliande's "The Starlit Jewel" - less than 2000 copies were made.
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I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.
--P.J. O'Rourke
