Pay Per Search

by Steve Gibson, Jan 23, 2002 10:21am PST

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There's only one true search engine anymore, and that's Google. Hell, yahoo even wants money now to get listed in their directory...and every other "search engine" that used to exist (Excite, Infoseek, etc) are crappy directories. Bleh.

Jan 24, 2002 12:30pm PST

There's only one true search engine anymore, and that's Google. Hell, yahoo even wants money now to get ... : Thradar

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Shackers should be charged b/t $1 to $4 every time they are * S H A C K T A G ' D *

Jan 23, 2002 5:39pm PST

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- then I will never use my tags ever again if that was true!! I've never beeen tagged so far. Who would wa... : Dave Mustaine

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Bah. No one will pay for this.

Jan 23, 2002 10:23am PST

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  People who do research for a living will. It will significantly lower the amound of bullshit returned f... : Reignman
- People will *definitely* pay for this. Apparently you missed the Wired article about the woman who decid... : Cruciform

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I think this has been done may times, also known as electric libray or northern lights - jesus people get with it

Jan 23, 2002 2:57pm PST

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- This is mentioned in the article also ;> : moz

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I'm sure Google will do it even better, and for free...

Jan 23, 2002 2:17pm PST

I'm sure Google will do it even better, and for free... : ZedAgent

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People who do research at universities may not get into this, as they usually have access to specialized databases. Small businesses would probably love the idea though.

Plus, searching for the document on yahoo implies that you'd get the full text, and not some library number. that's good.

Jan 23, 2002 1:40pm PST

People who do research at universities may not get into this, as they usually have access to specialized ... : DinK

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I suppose it's an interesting idea on Yahoo's part, but not something I'd use. My school pays for a massive list of rather expensive but VERY good databases, they run the gamut from photograph collections to ancient periodicals. If only the names of them would come to me at the moment... Regardless, I'm sure those who don't have free access to university databases would find this useful.

Jan 23, 2002 12:03pm PST

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I suppose it's an interesting idea on Yahoo's part, but not something I'd use. My school pays for a mass... : Syixxs
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- I agree. I think this is who they are targetting. Indexing periodicals with all of their formats is a ... : parker
- my hs pays for SIRS, Electronic media library (or something like that) and something else : primate13

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Anyone read Snow Crash? Kinda reminds me of this...

Jan 23, 2002 12:21pm PST

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- heh yea when i read the book i thought it was a cool idea, it doesnt seem so cool now that its being don... : |mali|

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it would make a lot more sense to me to offer it free so people can see how cool it is...then do this pay-per-search thing. as it is, the public isnt going to really realize how cool it could be. will you guys ever use it?

Jan 23, 2002 11:55am PST

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it would make a lot more sense to me to offer it free so people can see how cool it is...then do this pay... : the_doctor
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- I imagine that they will offer it for trial use to universities and the such. Most people really are no... : parker

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It could work if they just post citations and/or brief abstracts for free and charge for full-text in html or pdf.

Northernlight (if no-one has mentioned it yet) does the pay-for-paper thing already.

Jan 23, 2002 12:10pm PST

It could work if they just post citations and/or brief abstracts for free and charge for full-text in htm... : dirtyoldman

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Man i wish we could go back to the days when the internet was pretty much free, before everyone got this idea that they should make money off it.

Jan 23, 2002 11:03am PST

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lots of people charge per search, ie Lexus/Nexus err whatever that legal search engine is...

Jan 23, 2002 11:04am PST

lots of people charge per search, ie Lexus/Nexus err whatever that legal search engine is... : afrochops

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There are academic databases like ProQuest, FirstSearch, ABI/Inform Global, and a whole slew of others that have both free and charge services. For those of you who've never used academic search databases for research or citation, the pay service can be well worth it at times.

If Yahoo offers an abstract of the article and then charges me $1 to get it, I'll pay it.

Jan 23, 2002 11:03am PST

There are academic databases like ProQuest, FirstSearch, ABI/Inform Global, and a whole slew of others th... : Dechter

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Well, I'm a researcher, and if their engine and quality can match that of the usual consortia of university databases and services, I'd surely pay $4.95/month for 50 documents...

Jan 23, 2002 11:02am PST

Well, I'm a researcher, and if their engine and quality can match that of the usual consortia of universi... : *TerraFORM

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But will it search for MP3's?

Jan 23, 2002 10:49am PST

But will it search for MP3's? : TheOccifer

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Isn't that what these sites do for free? search the invisible databases on the web?
http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~gprice/direct.htm
http://www.invisibleweb.com/
http://www.profusion.com/

Jan 23, 2002 10:46am PST

Isn't that what these sites do for free? search the invisible databases on the web? http://gwis2.circ.gw... : muggles

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whats the big deal, lexis-nexis and a few other academic places charge for articles and stuff...

this looks like some overblown conspiracy /. bullshit

Jan 23, 2002 10:24am PST

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whats the big deal, lexis-nexis and a few other academic places charge for articles and stuff... this ... : ghost in my shell
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- libraries usually have telnet searches, etc. This is offered for free in many places. : indeego

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ack!

Jan 23, 2002 10:22am PST

ack! : virus

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