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Now THAT's the best piece of info I have recieved from this list yet. Not that the rest of the info is not good... Just that this Web Washer thing sounds FANTASTIC!!! Thank you for letting us know. -----Original Message----- From: Jerome Draper [mailto:jdraper@wco.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 2:43 PM To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com Subject: Re: Search400 blackmail? Webwasher banners! Yes, sounds like BM to me but banners suck anyway. I use and recommend Web Washer as an add-in to my browser that eliminates banner ads from browsing completely. I never see them so I don't know if they are there or not. BTW, my browser runs faster too. Greatest thing since sliced bread but doesn't make advertisers happy. Free Webwasher can be downloaded from: http://www.siemens.de/servers/wwash/wwash_us.htm Jerry At 03:10 PM 12/15/1999 -0500, you wrote: >I'd be interested in any other software vendors opinion of this item >received from Search400. Bear in mind that our company is a search400 >customer - we place banner ads with them. Does this not sound like a >form of blackmail? > >>Search400.com has had vendors approach us about buying search keywords >>that are their competitors' company name or product name. Here's a >>fictional example -- Microsoft might buy the keywords "IBM" and >>"AS/400" so that all user searches on these terms will result in a >>Microsoft banner above Web results relevant to IBM and AS/400. > >>This is not an uncommon occurrance on other search engines. For >>example, Yahoo regularly sells keyword banners associated with company >>names to either the company or their competitors. > >>Before we begin to accept these orders, we want to offer you the >>opportunity to lock up the keywords for the name of your company and >>products. We've developed a special vendor keyword package where you >>can buy your company name and three of your company's product names for >>only $250 per month. This special is effective until December 31st. > >>If you're interested in taking advantage of this special offer please >>call me or reply to this email. We will not accept any insertion >>orders for competitive "keyword" names until January. > Jerry Draper, Trilobyte Software Systems, since 1976 Specializing in connecting PC's, Windows, MAC's, and LAN's to the AS/400 Representing Synapse, Apple, IBM, UDS, Nlynx, MI, Perle, Netsoft, etc. (415) 457-3431; (415) 258-1658fax; jdraper@wco.com +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +--- +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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