Micropayments: Effective Replacement For Ads?

[James A. Donald]

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At 02:57 PM 2/26/2001 -0800, Ray Dillinger wrote:
 > Finally, sites supported by micropayments are going to have to
 > figure out something about web spiders.  If "scooter" can't spend
 > several million dollars a month on these places, they're not going
 > to get into the altavista database, for example.  So if you want the
 > site to be in a search engine at all, you're going to have to let
 > the search engine's robot cruise the site for free.  Wanna bet it
 > would be about twenty seconds before somebody released a "Pretend to
 > be a web spider and browse pay sites for FREE!" utility?

  Not a problem.  Typically a micropayment site will have index and summary 
pages that are free, and these free pages will contain lots of pay 
links.  You will not want the spider to traverse the pay links.

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