Web Search–Pay for Placement
Source: S.F. Chronicle
Searching For Profits:
Amid Tech Slump, More Portals Sell Search Engine Results To Highest Bidder
Once again, let the searcher beware!

Web Search–Inktomi
Web Search–MSN Search
MSN Search Chooses Inktomi for Asian Portals
From the release, “Inktomi� Search/Web will provide full-text results for MSN Search in Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia, providing highly relevant, comprehensive search results to Internet users in these regions.”

Information Industry–Databases
Information Industry–Copyright
Source: Newsbytes
“House Judiciary Chair Nudges Industry On Database Accord”
From the article, “House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., told high-tech industry leaders that unless they can hammer out a compromise position on a common database intellectual property protection bill, House leaders would forge their own version of the measure out of two conflicting pieces of legislation.The IT industry and other database and intellectual property holders remain far apart on their concept of database protections, with many content providers trying to keep their databases proprietary. However, Internet portal sites and other presenters of information want databases to be available under copyright law, so long as they are significantly augmented.”

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