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More information can be found at: Snip. No promtional URLs please
(edited by: NFFC at 7:38 am (gmt) on Nov. 14, 2001)
"Simply add an Inktomi Search Submit to your existing web site, or create your own promotional pages. You will receive a commission from all orders placed by referred customers."
Looks like a low-rent advertising stunt to me. Maximizing profit potential, innovative revenue generation... it's all a load of blah-de-blah. Whatever one wishes to call it, the bottom line seems driven by the $ sign to the exclusion of all else.
I've no problem with that but I've a feeling (heh!) that these URL vendors and links traders – INK in particular - are being somewhat less than honest with site owners when it comes to delivering on their promises.
Staying one step ahead of the opposition - in this case the big news among the position punters must be alltheweb's package - has, for some, come to mean "Jack up your prices, put out some cheap promo, and screw whoever you can." Cheap tricks don't work for me. I'd rather they delivered a product that drives traffic to my sites.
Perhaps my perception is overly cynical but, for want of a better reason to ante up to INK, I'd rather sink my money into alltheweb.
With Google, alltheweb has been the future since last year and they're now within a whisker of fulfilling their promise. INK is headed in the other direction. Since they started sliding out of regional search in key areas, e.g. Canada.com and Anzwers, they've looked more and more like the leftovers of last year's Christmas dinner.
Not too appetizing no matter how it’s dressed up.
I suspect that most users in the UK are still on an internet learning curve (aren't we all!) and as they progress along the curve they move away from MSN, AOL and INKTOMI solutions and towards engine such as Google, Allthweb, Wisenut,etc.
Wish it would happen a little quicker.
