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  1. Uncyclopedia also partners with Answers... by Ingolfke · · Score: 3, Funny · on Wikimedia Proposes Advertising [Updated]

    Seems like Answers Corporation is making a grab for the Wikishare. Saw this posted on the the Uncyclopedia, the one true source for knowledge, earlier today.

    The Uncyclopedia has announced a fund-raising (WORK FROM HOME! MAKE SIX FIGURES) partnership with Answers Corporation (http://www.gurunet.com/) and will replace all of the Uncyclopedia content with a growing (Buy PENIS enlargement products NOW!!!) number of unobtrusive advertisements. The Uncylopedia will recieve three easy installments of $19.95.

    It's a sad day for the Wikispace.

  2. sounds like GuruNet by jrm228 · · Score: 1 · on Yahoo's Y!Q Contextual Search Beta

    I've been using a tool called GuruNet (aka Atomica, and just recently Answers.com) for about 2 years. It's a subscription service, but worth every penny. You can alt-click on any word/phrase and it'll bring back categorized results from a dictionary, encyclopedia, Google, etc, and since they've linked in hundreds of validated sources you can have higher confidence that the information returned is accurate.

  3. Re:This is hardly news by pipingguy · · Score: 1 · on Advice for Developers: Make Common Usage Easy


    The producers of Scrabble should take a hint.

    The producers of Scrabble should take a hint from who, the creators of the useless, flashy software or do you not know how to use the phrase?

  4. Re:Where advertising should really go by vasqzr · · Score: 1 · on Are Plain-Text Ads Doomed?


    I think "the next big thing" in advertising could be plain old hypertext links within writings. If an online magazine has an article about C++, wherever it says "C++ compiler" in the article it could be a link to a compiler vendor.

    Atomica Slingshot will allow you to click on any word in any program, and it provides search engine results for that word. Works pretty well.

  5. This is nothing new by avdi · · Score: 1 · on Where Does Microsoft Want You to Go Today?
    Companies have been providing this type of service for awhile. Flyswat has a browser plugin that recognizes names of companies, sports teams, famous people, books, etc. on web pages and puts special hyperlinks to more information under them. I understand the latest version of the Alexa ("What's Related") plugin does something similar. GuruNet doesn't actually change the look of the page, but it allows you to alt-click on any word in a page to pop up a window of related information. ThirdVoice got into trouble with a lot of companies because their plugin let users annotate any site's page with their own comments, which could only be seen if you had the 3V plugin.

    In all these cases, the actual web pages are never touched; they are simply annotated on the client side. I don't recall there being any law against a user agent modifying an HTML page when it is displayed. I'm sure if corporations had their way, they wouldn't allow me to use my own stylesheet to view their pages (an option in both IE and Netscape); but I still can, because HTML was never intended to strictly control how content is displayed. If a user agent wants to intersperse every page with links to it's producer's web, well, why not? It may be annoying, but there's nothing illegal or even immoral about it.

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