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Factiva CEO: Surfers will pay for news
News According to Hart, consumers do not want to pay for online content because they have been trained not to, whereas business users are used to putting their hands in their pockets for particular information.
[July 31, 2002, 6:27]
Yahoo delves deeper into Web
News Yahoo on Tuesday will begin a systematic effort to draw more content into its searchable database of Web documents, in its latest bid to win Web surfers from search rival Google. To this end, it has aligned with the Library of Congress, UCLA...
[March 2, 2004, 7:25]
Days of the free Internet may be numbered
News Content on the Internet has always been offered to surfers for free. Paying to create or acquire content, and then giving it to surfers for free "does not make for a long-term sustainable business model", is the conclusion it has come to after...
[August 20, 2001, 16:01]
Web content: Will users ever pay?
News Why do you think Internet surfers will be willing to pay for KeepMedia? But he also faces the challenge of convincing Web surfers to pay to access archived online content. Despite the Web's transformation into a major publishing platform...
[August 4, 2003, 13:25]
If you've got the cash, Google's got the answer
News Introducing new services or products almost weekly, the company has stepped up efforts to improve cash flow and garner additional favour with Web surfers and companies looking for specialised search. Others have simply fallen off the radar of Web...
[April 22, 2002, 9:08]
Sites aim to get around ad blockers
News Industry executives estimate that the population of Net surfers using ad-blocking software is in the range of 2 percent to 5 percent. But if people are determined enough to filter ads, then they're unlikely to cough up money to pay for content.
[October 11, 2001, 9:05]
A Year Ago: Erotic e-commerce vendors warn against backlash
News Relevant Knowledge, which measures visits to online sites, estimates that 43 percent of all Internet surfers visited a pornographic site during the second quarter. In addition to financial information, adult content seems to be one of the few...
[October 12, 1999, 7:00]
US Report: Erotic e-commerce vendors warn against backlash
News Relevant Knowledge, which measures visits to online sites, estimates that 43 percent of all Internet surfers visited a pornographic site during the second quarter. In addition to financial information, adult content seems to be one of the few...
[October 12, 1998, 9:54]
Paid content comes to Kazaa
News Altnet's play is all the more risky in seeking to wring dollars from Web surfers on a playing field that has come to epitomise the Internet freebie bonanza: file swapping. Consumer fears have been fanned by news of other programs that spy on their...
[May 20, 2002, 8:54]
Will Macromedia's Flash plans cripple the Web?
News Previous criticism of Flash has focused on misuse of the software by Web designers, particularly those who plague Web surfers with lengthy animated introduction pages. One promised pay-off is easier-to-use transaction sites with content that...
[April 2, 2002, 10:00]
Onfolio unfurls bookmarking tool
News Web surfers can create a separate collection of bookmarks or folders in that pane, and then share and publish the information stored there, according to the company. The question is: how many buyers will be willing to pay $30 for a more powerful...
[March 16, 2004, 11:15]
Google makes move into banner ads
News Both companies auction search keywords to the highest bidder and ask customers to pay only when Web surfers click on advertisements. He said the decision to wade into banners came after nine months of interviews with Web surfers, publishers and...
[May 13, 2004, 8:55]
Borders founder hawks old magazines online
News Web surfers have long been accustomed to accessing content for free. Researchers have identified an increased willingness among consumers to pay for Web content. The venture aims to test a burgeoning market for paid content.
[July 28, 2003, 11:47]
Google mulls upscale subscriptions
News Among the considerations are new niche searches for periodicals, medical information or technology that Web surfers or companies would pay to use. David Seuss, chief executive of Northern Light, said that he has found consumers are willing to pay...
[October 26, 2001, 9:29]
Online ad-blocking attacked
Talkback The privacy of the surfers is usually violated by the tracking cookies that ultimately results in spam mails and unsolicited advertisements. Now for every service a consumer is required to pay. The increase in cost is a misconception especially...
[June 23, 2005, 10:47]
Cybersquatting profits from online brands
News This attitude would be welcomed at AusRegistry, who are planning a multi-million advertising campaign to promote the concept that if Net surfers are looking for an Australian company, they should be looking at the dot-au domain space.
[January 16, 2003, 9:07]
Google mulls Gmail tweaks
News Nevertheless, it immediately produced an uproar over plans to offer Web surfers up to 1GB of storage for free, subsidised by advertising based on keywords scanned from messages and delivered over the service.
[April 14, 2004, 9:15]
Google in banner-ad u-turn
News They also began to target ads to Web surfers' behaviour across swathes of pages before the bubble burst. In contrast, marketers pay only for CPC ads when people click. Google will target ads by scanning Web pages for their content.
[April 25, 2005, 11:15]
Yahoo! to put price on searches
News Although the new search service has not officially launched, a preview available to Web surfers Tuesday offered a glimpse of what's to come. struck a deal with paid search service Overture Services to integrate pay-for-placement listings into its...
[January 23, 2002, 9:26]
'Harmless' DNS data can mask attacks
News The same technology that allows Web surfers to locate and connect to computers on the Internet can be used to create covert communications channels, bypass security measures and store distributed content, a security researcher said on Saturday.
[August 2, 2004, 9:10]
