What *are* they smoking?
Rich Braun
richb at pioneer.ci.net
Tue Sep 16 19:07:27 UTC 2003
VeriSign stands to gain financially, take a look at this excerpt from an AP
news blurb published yesterday:
> Ben Turner, VeriSign's vice president for naming services, described the
service
> as a way to "improve overall usability of the Internet."
>
> People mistype ".com" and ".net" names some 20 million times daily, Turner
said,
> and internal studies show "the vast majority of users prefer a page like this
> than what they are getting today."
>...
> Currently, Site Finder sends lost Web surfers to both regular search results
and
> pay-for-placement listings, which are marked as such. Turner said VeriSign was
> partnering with two search companies he would not name.
>
> He would not disclose how much VeriSign would earn from those companies, with
> which it has revenue-sharing arrangements.
Anyone find out any details of the contracts which VeriSign has apparently
signed to profit from this little venture?
-rich
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