Receptional_Andy - 1:44 pm on Mar 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

>>this is a definite breach by the BBC

I can see that they are on slightly shaky ground, although I can't see that this example breaks their guidelines:

Recommended sites should be:

"the best website to answer your search query"

and not "Sell you things but don't tell you things"

Both sites DO have siginificant free content, although, again, I agree with you that the weighting of commercial vs free content on the first site is not very balanced.

However, my question would be, do the sites recommended provide useful information to a bbci searcher looking for cheap flights, and I feel the answer has to be yes.

But surely the crucial point is that the bbc don't stand to profit from these links. They need to provide high quality, preferably recommended sites to their visitors whether they are looking for cheap flights or homework help.

Also the bbc return recommended sites for a wide variety of commercial areas, cheap flights is by no means the most obvious example.

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>>the Daily Miror...are most interested

Hehe, have they not found any statues of elvis on Mars this week? ;)
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