Re: Spiderable OPACs and the elephant in the library lobby

From: Bernhard Eversberg <ev_at_nyob>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:13:41 +0200
To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
Jacobs, Jane W wrote:
>
>
>...   We don’t really want to tie ourselves
> to closely to Google or anybody else, because, let’s face it, if
> advertising dollars dry up, Google is going down as fast as Imus!
>
More likely, they will come up with a fee-based premium service
and make the fee-free search less powerful. Conceivably, there
is a number of ways to do that.
And considering how many people worldwide have already tied their
whichever business to G, chances cannot be very bad for it. As of yet,
they can afford to wait a bit longer to get even more people hooked.

B.Eversberg
Received on Wed Apr 25 2007 - 06:22:05 EDT