A few of these Top 10 Reasons to Not Shop Online ring true. However, I’ve bought a lot of stuff online with happy results. The price is often right, it is generally much faster, and when I’m going to buy something besides clothes and food at a bricks and mortar place I find I still do most of the research online.
Via Ken MacLeod.
Well, duh, they make money:
“With the near-zero cost of sending out huge volumes of spam, the fact that more than one in ten users are purchasing products is clearly continuing to drive the economics of spam,” said Radicati.
Another way of looking at this is that a lot of folks consider the unsolicited email proffering painkillers, stiffeners, low interest mortgages, etc., to be as useful as other forms of advertising.
Ursula is not real happy with one aspect of Google searching:
I use Google everyday, but I am not digging their new feature that allows you to enter a phone number and get a map to the address
These capability with or without Google has been around a long time. Just go to any of the various white page services, key in the number, and they will do a reverse look up and provide an address. Take the address to your preferred map site and, presto, you have the same thing Google is doing.
Me, I’d like to see the kids at Google talk to each other! Really, shouldn’t they at least be listing the Google map?
That motto takes on ever more expensive trappings. The completists among you can now add the Philips HeartStart Home Automated External Defibrillator (AED) to your tool kit. As OneMansOpinion notes:
You need one of these — to satisfy your ER jones during the off-season, perhaps.He has a bit more to say about Philips products as well.
According to the new MSN search engine (beta) Google is more evil than satan.
Google has surged from #4 to #1 in the results since the Presurfer noted this tidbit earlier today.
Update: Shopiere experiments with “software monopoly.”