Re: [india-gii] [ilugd]: Re: [LIG] Skipping commercials may now be illegal!

[Sandip Bhattacharya]

On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 11:12:04AM +0530, Raju Mathur spoke out thus:
 Someday greed is going to overreach itself, and then there'll be one
 legislation which forbids some restrictions which content providers
 are laying upon their consumers.  That one legislation will act as a
 precedent for a whole slew of similar court cases and the content
 providers will end up with the short end of the stick.  /oracle
 

Another possible theory is that the market might throw up a self-check
mechanism.  Firms would come up whose USP would be to treat their own
customers with respect and not treat them as cows which can be forever
milked. 

A crude example could be the emergence of google in the last few
years. Before the advent of google, remember how search engines kept
getting bloater and bloater? I remember Altavista (my favorite before
google came along) cramming in ads, lots of junk content on a page
which was just expected to be a search engine. Every search engine
provider kept on putting more and more junk on the search page.

Then google came along and gave people just what they wanted - a no
nonsense search page. I am yet to see a website entry page as
to-the-point as http://www.google.com . IMHO it showed that google
understood that when people are coming to their site, they consider it
a waste of time if they spend time waiting for the page to load, and
google respected that sentiment.(I serously don't know how they make
money though.)

Seriously, google has got a huge following not only for their massive
searching capability and search intelligence, but also that they have
treated their users with far more respect than other greedy search
competitors.

- Sandip

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Re: [india-gii] [ilugd]: Re: [LIG] Skipping commercials may now be illegal!

[Raju Mathur]

This is going way off topic, but...

 Sandip == Sandip Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Sandip [snip]
Sandip Seriously, google has got a huge following not only for
Sandip their massive searching capability and search
Sandip intelligence, but also that they have treated their users
Sandip with far more respect than other greedy search
Sandip competitors.

I used to be an Altavista user, until I discovered Google.  Stuck to
Google for speed.  Then realised that Altavista takes payment for
premium spidering your site, and if you don't pay that premium your
site will be spidered weeks, if not months late.  Ergo, Altavista
results are skewed towards people who have paid them: you may not get
relevant results from sites which Altavista has delayed indexing due
to non-payment of premium.

Regards,

-- Raju
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