chiyo - 4:34 pm on Jul 18, 2001 (gmt 0)

The fact that Se's have to resort to presenting advertising without admitting it goes to underline again that the whole web search services sector on the net is in crisis. The downgrading in quality of mainstream engines shows that the mainstream all-encompassing SE is doomed, maybe apart from one or two. Like paynt I see specialist engines/search services (vortals?) taking over a lot of business of general search engines.

Curious can have his pay per play listings where he doesn't want to (can't?) compete with webmasters from under developed countries so he can keep his car, others can have topic centred Se's, others shopping Se's etc etc. Each specialisation will have their niche all with diff revenue models.