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[bogeyman]

you will be banned if you persist with this language. :scotspine

Ah! That's better

[DodgyAgent]

Yes, my dear DA.

I think posting anything on this forum is utterly futile unless you're in the clique.

You dont exactly do yourself any favours.

[bogeyman]

You dont exactly do yourself any favours.

Oh! Should I ingratiate myself then?

[DodgyAgent]

Oh! Should I ingratiate myself then?

No just carry on being a knob and stick by your guns.

[bogeyman]

No just carry on being a knob and stick by your guns.

Well, coming from a knob of the first water, how could I ignore that advice?

[Fungus]

This is not true. I started using Google in 2001 - well before they became mainstream.

They got lots of following because of a number of innovations that they had comparing to other search engines:

1) searches were very fast - always
2) relevant results due to anchor hits taken into account (I do it too) and using rank of pages importantce based on links (will add it this month)
3) clean layout - no junk around

They also added two more little thought about innovations:

1) text snippets quickly pre-viewing content of matches on the page
2) max pages per site limit

1) No! Unless searches are very slow, users do not care. Back then most people were using dial up and the bottleneck was the internet connection, not the search engine. Quality first, speed second.
2) I already said that.
3) Yes, but there are not many alternatives are there?

The business model is VERY important. It's what funds them. What's your business model?

BTW I was using Arpanet and Telnet long before the internet became mainstream. An irrelevent comment but I'm following your lead.

Fungus

[Fungus]

Well, coming from a knob of the first water, how could I ignore that advice?

NOwt wrong with being a knob.

And carry on grinding his nose into the ashes of his dreams. It's fun. If he can't take criticism, he shouldn't share.

[DimPrawn]

BTW I was using Arpanet and Telnet long before the internet became mainstream. An irrelevent comment but I'm following your lead.

I was using morse code and spark gaps before Marconi was a wet dream in his fathers pants.

Threaded.

[AtW]

The business model is VERY important. It's what funds them. What's your business model?

Software licensing seems rather attractive option - having good show case of it in terms of huge WWW database is the kind of demonstration that will make it sell far easier than otherwise - because I have to scale to far far bigger volumes than ordinary SE writers my stuff will be much more efficient with small volumes measured in millions of products. That's serious competitive advantage.

[bogeyman]

NOwt wrong with being a knob.

And carry on grinding his nose into the ashes of his dreams. It's fun. If he can't take criticism, he shouldn't share.

Hear, Hear!

Well said Mr. Fungus (you're not a Bogeyman perchance?)

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