FW: [WEB4LIB] No advertisement search engine sites

[Mike Madin]

Academic Info may not be "comparable to Yahoo, Alta Vista, etc." but it is 
a subject directory that does not accept any advertising but instead relies 
on viewer donations to survive.

http://www.academicinfo.net/

One of the new group of Seattle based companies fighting [excuse the 
post-WTO pun] corporate/commercial greed. No billionaires here!!

Mike Madin
Academic Info
Seattle


-----Original Message-----
From:	Mike Madin [SMTP:madin at u.washington.edu]
Sent:	Tuesday, December 07, 1999 9:24 AM
To:	Mike
Subject:	Fw: [WEB4LIB] No advertisement search engine sites


----- Original Message -----
From: <morganj at iupui.edu>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 8:47 AM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] No advertisement search engine sites


> I was reading the report of the first Search Engine conference, at
> http://websearch.about.com/internet/websearch/library/blses99.htm
> and saw in the Search Engines Speak panel that one company talked about
> carefully separating its commercial operation from its indexing.  However
> successful they might be, I began to think that libraries would benefit
> from a Yahoo-like search service that wasn't powered by commercials, so
> that users searching for travel information could see a list of services
> without a blinking ad for one of them.
>
> Encyclopedia Brittanica is apparently going this route, with an
> educational version that has no advertising as well as a
> commercial-supported free version. Are there major
> services comparable to Yahoo, Alta Vista, etc. that pursue either a dual
> or a no-commercial policy?
>
> Jim Morgan
> morganj at iupui.edu
>
>