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Old March 27th 12, 03:42 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Mayayana
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| Very surprising to me. I've used them for over a year now, I think,
| with never a hitch. What I don't get is why they do it. What's in it
| for them?
|

It seems to be just simple idealism and generosity:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

I'm surprised there isn't any "About Us" on their website.
It's ironic to me that richard2 says the Internet has been
destroyed, while he's posting via E-S. To a great extent I
agree with his view. Google's commercialism and monopoly
have allowed the Internet to become little more than a
shopping mall. The weight given to incoming links on webpages
ensures that Google finds little that isn't retail something-or-other.
But E-S is one of many examples of the Internet functioning
just as many had envisioned it would.

I've always thought of the Internet as something like the
town square, where everyone can chip in as they see fit
and everyone can benefit. That Internet is still there. It's
just harder to find. The generation that came of age in
commercial town squares (shopping malls) now feels
comfortable living on a commercial Web. (Facebook, which
is really just AOL combined with high-speed access and
javascript advances.) Perhaps what's needed is to rouse
a few idealistic college students from their timelines in order
to write a new search engine that performs the job that
Google used to do.




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