BBC search engine Re: [Upd-discuss] Re: Are publishers relevant?

[Michael Hart]

I presume this is NOT the search engine you can add on
from Mozilla's search engine add on bar. . .as this is
one that seems to say it ONLY searches BBC materials.


Thanks!!!

Give the world eBooks in 2006!!!

Michael S. Hart
Founder
Project Gutenberg


On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Mashilamani Sambasivam wrote:

> Speaking on search engine, BBC has its own
> search engine. BBC is publicly funded
> (by taxpayer's money not govt.) and independent.
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/search/whysearch.shtml
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/purpose/
>
> In my opinion, important institutions like
> journalist organisations and 'search engines'
> should be funded by the taxpayer's money.
>
> Point is - There is a huge difference between
> privately owned journalistic papers/news orgs
> , which are demand driven, and can be influenced
> by competitors and money. Even the US media
> supported the iraq war, though they have the
> most independent best newspapers like
> washingtonpost (of nixon fame) and nytimes.
> Ofcourse we now know no WMDs in iraq.
>
> This implies that important institutions
> need to be funded by taxpayers' money
> and need to be autonomous. they shouldnt be
> funded by govt. or privately owned.
>
> Search engines are the eyes to the web. Whoever
> controls the major search engines control the
> web.
>
> Masi
>
>
>> But time is change in essence -- I mean, read the
>> comment on this one
>> about Google:
>>
>>
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/02/334122.html?c=on#c142593
>>
>> Should we not have anything to do with Google, or
>> should we kop the fact
>> that this group of folk have more shout in the world
>> than a few nation
>> states put-together and we do have vested interests
>> and if we are that
>> bothered then we can always ask them and until we do
>> there's no point in
>> blackhearting them. Dunno, that was a question.
>
>
>
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