Karen
Thanks for the laugh - sounds like Google is the search to use! What's the
actual address?
David
----- Original Message -----
From: "tellef" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "All" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 4:55 PM
Subject: Off topic -- this will make you Google!
> Hello all!
>
> Just finished reding the 7/23 issue of TIME, which has a feature
> on innovative new marketers.
>
> A guy named Bill Gross started a company that does Web searches.
> The website that pays the most money to him gets listed first
> in the web search! He justifies this as saying that those companies
> who can afford the most money are probably the best sites for that
> search criteria.
>
> Here's the kicker. His own seach site is "GoTo". But you don't
> know which other popular search sites also use his company.
> TIME lists these search sites as using his "highest bidder" search
> criteria: AOL, Alta Vista, Lycos and MSN.
>
> They say that if you seach on "motherhood", Google (my search engine
> of choice anyway) would give #1 spot to a nonprofit "Safe Motherhood
> Home Page." The first site using his criteria: "Nursing Apparel
> and Bras - Free Shipping"
>
>
> Karen
