Let's see... if we don't use Google or Yahoo, it doesn't cost anything... if we do use Google or Yahoo..... it doesn't cost anything.... sounds free either way. If they are subsidized by tax dollars, then we are getting our money back hehehehehe
On Nov 11, 2009, at 9:02:17 AM, "Greg Schmitz" <gws1@columbia.edu> wrote:
Come now Mark, you wrote:
"1. Google & Yahoo are both free."
Nothing is free. This was actually raised as an issue at SSA last year. The Library of Congress is busy spending taxpayers dollars putting images up on Flickr. LC's argument was that Flickr is "free." The simple reality is that Flickr is used to attract eyeballs and data that it can monitize. So, in essence the taxpayers are subsidizing Flikr and Yahoo via The Library of Congress budget. I find it amazing when users of The Internet think that commercial sites are "free-" since when? I am not interested in sh
aring anything with Yahoo or Google.