On the one end you say this has little to do with Perl and in the next I read, "...maybe enhance our search-fu...". If you are used to using Perl and the web are these not inter-related? I can guess that your retort might be, 'but I don't use Perl to search/surf/look up things on the web'...and that is precisely my point. I don't either. I use search engines. However, due to the great push to compete for mindshare on search engines computing information is becoming hopelessly cluttered. We need tools to help us unclutter the clutter. Would you rather we write those tools in Rexx?

...However, the relevant issues here are economics, business (mores || ethics || practices) and human nature..."

I kind of saw them as 'freedom, peace of mind, ability to find cogent data first and useless data second' but we can go with yours too.

"Which funding source (aka "advertiser") will support (aka "buy advertising") the internet ..."

Let me quickly say that I am somewhat appalled by this statement. The web was created as a knowledge sharing tool. True, the perverse reality is that advertising has taken over and perhaps in many cases that is okay -- until you start looking for something important/useful on the web. Now all of a sudden you must dig through pages worth of crapola. Search engines are primarily supposed to give us the information we are asking for first and stuff that we might be interested in second. It can do it the other way around if it is clear that you are still basically getting what you want. When a search tool returns completely wrong data but I get a full dose of advertising 'sugar' I'm a bit disgusted. I would think you would be too.

What I'm saying here is that search engines get their money from advertisers, so they are never going to add a -minus::Advertisements to their listings. We have to do it. Welcome to the new digital democracy.

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In reply to Re^2: The Web is Set Up All Wrong by InfiniteSilence
in thread The Web is Set Up All Wrong by InfiniteSilence

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