From: Brian Atkins (brian@posthuman.com)
Date: Tue Dec 21 1999 - 21:29:20 MST
Bryan Moss wrote:
>
> Brian Atkins wrote:
>
> > Ebay is attempting to ward off centralized auction search
> > sites by blocking those sites from accessing its servers.
> > It is quite easy for a petfood.com or whatever to block
> > your search bot and not allow it to index your content. So
> > in effect they can try to make people still come directly
> > to their site, or as ebay is trying to do force the search
> > bot operators to license the content.
>
> I think good search bots will replace the URL field as the
> standard way of navigating the web. In which case dot-com's
> that deter search bots would only succeed in losing
> customers. Ebay's got nothing you can't do with XML and a
> good search engine anyway.
>
Actually Ebay does have something, it's called a critical mass
of buyers/sellers.
-- Sig under construction
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