SCN: Re: search engine funding (was: hmmm)

[J. Johnson]

Under the "Yet Another Alternative to Advertising" head the options seem
to get scarier.  In the July issue of Linux Journal (www.linuxjournal.com)
Doc Searls takes a close look at Microsoft's "HailStorm".  In MS' own
words:  "HailStorm will help move the Internet to end-user subscriptions,
where users pay for value received."  MS would have all of your Internet
services coming through them, taking a cut from both you and the vendors. 
There would be a "certificate-based license relationship with Microsoft"
to "filter abusers out of the system.  Obtaining a certificate and the
ongoing right to use HailStorm services will have a cost associated with
it."  

We may yet wish we had stuck with the ads!

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