Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jerry Lehrer wrote: > By having advertisers and banners and everything short of pop-ups. At the risk of sounding like a paid advertisement myself (Brian -- I'll expect that check in the mail... ;) one of the reasons I use Google exclusively is because it has *not* forgotten why people use the site in the first place: Ads are out-of-the-way and do not interfere with my searching. If I want them, then I can find them, but the advertising on Google doesn't (as yet) intrude. The other services that I used to use (Yahoo, Alta Vista) forgot why people use a search tool and made it so difficult to separate search results from advertisements, that I stopped using them altogether. Of course, the other reason is that the technology that Google is built upon means that it finds many, many more relevant results than did those other services... ;) M. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html