RE: [xml-dev] Re: Abuse of this list

["Len Bullard" <cbullard@hiwaay.net>]

The opinions of Google are expressed as paid ads in which the added content
expresses the intention of the buyer.   Make that fit their transactions
well enough for long enough and you might receive a small check.  Perhaps
that is what Stylus should be doing.  Pay to prey.

So far the worst prognostications have been pretty much on target.
Meanwhile every time the problems come up, the pundits tell us they are too
hard, the authorities tell us they are too expensive and the owners continue
to retreat behind gated communities with ever larger walls using the profits
of the pillaging.   It won't kill Western Civ.  These kinds of problems ARE
western civ.  It is the downfall of openness.

That said, do they ever do this with PDF?  Maybe binaries make it more
expensive and so the defense is to take the low road and start raising the
complexity of getting to the goods by asymmetrically changing the costs.

len


From: bryan rasmussen [mailto:rasmussen.bryan@gmail.com] 

Frankly the stylus studio stuff is just irritating, although for me
not the downfall of Western Civ type of immorality it is being
described as.

The irritation is as follows:

The added in links are never helpful to the subject at hand. It looks
like other links have been removed. Thus I don't click on a link that
looks useful because it won't be. The existence of this Stylus Studio
repurposing of the content throws off the search index of
non-repurposed content.

normally the repurposing of content should add intelligence to it, but
this repurposed content seems less intelligent. it is something of a
spam blog. Perhaps Google would have an opinion.