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Google Considers 'Speciality' Subscriptions

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the get-your-information dept.

jdclucidly writes "C|Net is reporting that Google is considering moving to a subscription based service for educational and commercial entities. The new service will be a specialized spider in addition to their already popular web search." Lexis-Nexis, Google's coming for you.

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  1. Slashdot Considers 'Speciality' Subscriptions by flufffy · · Score: 3, Funny
    According to this story on CNET, anyway. Here's a taster:

    Slashdot sees revenue in ads, fees

    By Gwendolyn Mariano

    Staff Writer, CNET News.com

    October 25, 2001, 12:30 p.m. PT

    Slashdot.org, the "news for nerds" Web site popular among software developers and Linux fans, said this week that it plans to use larger ads and offer a subscription service.

    When Slashdot increases ad sizes, it plans to introduce a subscription service for people who want to pay for an ad-free version. Jeff Bates, who runs the site, said Thursday that Slashdot will launch the new ads and subscription service early next year. The cost of the service has yet to be determined.

    "The larger ad formats are coming about really because, as Bob Dylan put it, 'The times, they are a'changing,'" Bates wrote in an e-mail interview. "While we'll still be mostly featuring the 468-by-60 banner, we're trying to work with our advertisers and see how we can work together. Rest assured though, we'll still be only having one ad per page."