RE: UKNM: Bad search engines

[John Handelaar]

> -----Original Message-----

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From: ownerchinwag [dot] com [ownerchinwag [dot] com]On">mailto:ownerchinwag [dot] com]On Behalf Of

>

Speechradaol [dot] com

> Sent: 27 July 2000 17:04

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To: uk-netmarketingchinwag [dot] com

> Subject: Re: UKNM: Bad search engines

>

>  At www.godado.co.uk we rarely get any complaints- and therefore never get

>  mentioned on this forum >>

>

> OK, you're useless.  Why charge people for entry? Google (a

> complete mystery

> to me how they make money)


Actually there's no mystery: they sell the technology services

behind the engine to other net businesses.


> gives me top 3 placements if I type speechradio

> and as far as I can recall I've never paid anyone a penny for a listing.


Though typing in 'speech radio', a far more likely

event, yields no such bounty.  Though a single entry

at #4 is still not too shabby.


> As far as bidding for keywords ..... don't even understand what you're

> talking about.


Another mystery?


Well, it would appear that a person offers money

(or "bids") to the site in order that he/she appears

at or near the top of the search results when a

particular search term (or "keyword") is typed in

by a user.


Hence: "bidding for keywords".


HTH.


[sigh]


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