[WEB4LIB] RE: More on Google going commercial

[Craighton Hippenhammer]

I agree.  It looks like Google has found a tightrope to walk that keeps even the academics happy - for now.  But it would be such a little and invisible thing to start taking intermediate steps towards paid placement - say, to leave off only some of the highlighting and sponsored link designations and to create a new category of ranked links, costs varying by placement in the 5th through 10th links or so on the first page where they would get less scrutiny and still be guaranteed first page access.  I'm sure the temptations are great.  While Google went profitable mid-2001 slightly before ex-Novell-CEO Eric Schmidt was hired on as Google CEO, they apparently are still denying IPO plans.  There's nothing like investor pressure to help you lower your standards.





...I don't know about you folks, but I
want Google to stay around. And I hope that the folks at Google realize
that the main reason people come to their search engine is because of
their relevancy and search technologies. The ads should help to further
that technology. But if Google were to compromise that tech and start
selling placement on the list, then their technology has become useless
and forever open to suspicion.

Just my thoughts,
Dan

Daniel Messer, Technology Instructor
Yakima Valley Regional Library
102 N 3rd St Yakima, WA 98901
(509) 452-8541 x712
dmesser at yvrls.lib.wa.us
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Craighton Hippenhammer
Information Technology Librarian
Olivet Nazarene University
chhammer at olivet.edu



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