[WEB4LIB] Anti-Porn Search Engine, PointCom

[Dan Kissane]

Hi,
Hmmmm.....this would be like a Yellow Pages model. It's a free country,
they can have at it. I doubt it will be all that popular but it could fill
a certain niche, as does the Yellow Pages.


Dan Kissane
Systems Librarian
SUNY College at Oneonta
Oneonta, NY 13820
kissandf at oneonta.edu


On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Greg Dean Schmitz wrote:

> I discovered a new search engine today at http://www.pointcom.com called
> "PointCom: the First Anti-Porn Search Engine", which says that it is
> launching on September 15th, 1998.
> 
> Besides the obvious reasons this new search engine might be of interest
> to libraries, I mention this for another reason.  When I attempted to
> add my library's URL to this new search engine, I got a screen
> describing PointCom's "advertising rates", explaining that only those
> sites that pay PointCom will be listed, and that the more you pay, the
> better placed your site is.
> 
> Doesn't this seems an odd way to approach a search engine, as it seems
> all they're going to get are commercial sites, and not the
> non-commercial sites that are often the source of useful information
> like libraries, non-profit organizations, and universities?
> 
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