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To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (44286)	3/6/1999 3:35:00 PM
From: EyeDrMike	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

<<To be clear, giving services away free is almost a default business model on the Web. >> this certainly wasn't an original web idea; i remember a time when television was free, and paid for by the advertising. Now we can't get decent reception without cable, at a cost of 30.00+ a month.

To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (44286)	3/6/1999 7:40:00 PM
From: tonyt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

<<Yahoo uses plenty of technology as well, but insists that a human being actually look at each Website and decide in which category it belongs. More important, Yahoo doesn't include every Web page in its listing. It makes editorial judgments about what you might want to see.>> While listing on Yahoo is currently free it sometimes takes months to get listed. Yahoo is considering charging in exchange for a faster listing. Do you think that this might effect their editorial judgement?