Re: UKNM: Search Engines

[Phil Gyford]

Matteo, re "Sorry, but I can't believe you are charging  people to read

yesterday's news printed on cheap paper ?"


But the moment's gone.


At 7:26 pm +0100 30/9/98, Jamie Unwin wrote:

>Me or Matto, Phil ?

>

>I'm not doing it because,

>

>(a) I have a nice job at the Guardian and therefore don't have time to set

>other peoples servers up.

>(b) I expect this will become a very standard feature of web servers very

>soon, ie. "very" basic configuration therefore I see no point offering in

>setting up a company to offer this service on it own. Also being employed

>full time, I'm sure the Guardian would be none to chuffed to find me

>setting up other peoples web servers. I also doubt I would have the time to

>offer a decent level of support anyway.

>

>I don't know Matto's charges and so maybe I should have shut up but,

>charging 'per visitor delivered' seems a very strange and expensive way to

>charge, it's a one time setup job (possibly some support charges to add new

>user agents/search engine spiders)

>

>I would personally be wary of any pricing tied to 'visitors delivered'

>unless it was part of a banner campain etc.

>

>jamie

>

>>At 17:45 30/09/98 +0100, you wrote:

>>>Jamie Unwin wrote:

>>>

>>>> Sorry, but I can't believe you are charging people for something so

>>>>basic ?

>>>

>>>Sorry, but I can't believe you are charging  people to read yesterday's news

>>>printed on cheap paper ?

>>

>>If you can do a better job for less money, why aren't you doing it?

>>

>>Phil Gyford

>>Deputy Editor, Capital Interactive / http://capitalinteractive.com

>>

>

>http://www.gyford.com / philgyford [dot] com / h:0171.622.9058 / w:0171.766.6491

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