[WEB4LIB] Re: Article on search engines . . .

[Dan Lester]

At 12:25 PM 8/16/99 -0700, Mark Stover wrote:
>  This is not to say that we
>shouldn't criticize the search engines or be aware of their money-seeking
>agendas.  But on the other hand we shouldn't make out big business to be
>the great bogeyman of the Web

In fact, if it weren't for the various search engines, we'd all be sitting 
around trying to develop one ourselves, figuring out where we'd get the 
money to finance the hardware, and so forth.  Yahoo could start out on a 
desktop....but that was long ago and far away.

dan

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