Re: [Traveller_TNE] OT: Search Engines (was: Urine To Water)

--- DED <> wrote:

> --- Peter Gray wrote:
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> > --- DED wrote:
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> > > >>Its at http://www.watseco.com/ (The power of Google... well except for their future stock
> > > prospects at any rate.)<<
> > >
> > > Apparently, a better search engine than Alta Vista. At least in this case.
> > >
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> >
> > (Small voice) Actually I found it through another link on Google:
> > http://www.buyusa.gov/thailand/en/195.html. I've learned from harsh experience that SE's are
> > sometimes more complicated (or less user friendly) than they're made out to be.
> >
>
> Hey! That link just vanished (401 message). That is one of the weird things about the Net: How
> old data can just hang around forever, and then evaporate in a flash on a second trip to that
> URL.
>
> It was there for me (watseco on buyusa.gov). Or were you referring to buyusa.gov on google?

No it wasnt there temporarily. Kinda like Jeff Zeitlin's webpage a few hours ago. Must be a
network hiccup.

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> If it was one of Google's text banner ads that you clicked on, it won't linger. There's a whole
> schema based on what an advertiser is willing to pay to have their ad appear and how many
> times/day they want to have that ad shown. The next time that page comes up, the next person in
> line gets it. It's like an auction house for ad space. Verizon and AT&T/SBC/SNET have similar
> methods on their search websites.

Explains banner ad placement on Yahoo Mail as well.

>
> I could go off on the whole SE thing (based on my experience in dotcom land) but I don't want to
> bore everyone and waste the bandwidth any further. Offline discussion available. =)
>

Lemme guess, SE results are more like russian roulette than an exact science? That would explain
inconsistent results on different visits over several days apart.

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