[WEB4LIB] Re: URL Promotion, Placement Purchasing

[Shirl Kennedy]

Yeah, I wrote about this many moons ago.  Here are some URLs that reference
it:

http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,1635,00.html
Engine sells results, draws fire

http://www.nwnet.com/netcetera/jul96/netc-3.30.html#1
Open Text takes commercial index model to logical end

http://www.pcworld.com/workstyles/online/articles/aug97/1508p145i.html
Can you trust your search engine?

http://www.univox.com/writer/cybcuSRC.html
The day the search engines died

And here's one that's marginally related...
http://www.did-it.com/articles/msnbc/index.htm
The fix appears to be in
Marketers hire promotional programmers
to help 'steal' top positions in Web searches




-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Dowling <tdowling at ohiolink.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Date: Wednesday, November 11, 1998 10:48 AM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: URL Promotion, Placement Purchasing


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>> Does anyone know of other search services offering
>> pay per top-percentage hits?
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>http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive/9606/0243.html
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>Plus ca change.  This was a last ditch effort by the Open Text search
>engine to remain a player.  It didn't work then, and I don't see why it
>should work for GoTo now.
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>Thomas Dowling
>OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
>tdowling at ohiolink.edu
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