SCN: hmmm

[J. Johnson]

On Tue, 22 May 2001, Doug Schuler wrote:

> I wanted to add my two cents.
> 
> We see far too many ads already and, in my opinion, it's the
> ads and the commercialization that are killing / will kill the
> Internet.  If ads are the answer then what the heck is the question!

The basic question is:  how are "free" services to be financed?

I think the argument raised in the original article would have been much
clearer if it had focused more specifically on, say, how are search
engines to be financed.  E.g., who will pay Altavista's bills?  If not the
advertisers, then who?

=== JJ =============================================================

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