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Business Week On Desktop Search Economics

Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 12, 2005 @08:33AM from the you-mean-they-want-money-too dept.

prostoalex writes "Business Week responds to the recent announcement by Yahoo! to join the ever-competitive desktop search field and asks whether any money will be made in giving away free utilities for desktop search. Apparently, beyond the intangible benefit of brand loyalty (which on the Internet probably doesn't amount to a whole lot), the only way to make money off the desktop search engines, as Business Week sees it, is to show related ads, which is bound to bring up some privacy issues."

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Re:FP by Orgazmus · 2005-01-12 08:40 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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The system had the verbosity of HTML combined with all the readability of compiled assembly viewed as bitmap images