Micropayments: Effective Replacement For Ads?

Sampo Syreeni decoy at iki.fi
Tue Feb 27 05:01:49 PST 2001


On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, James A. Donald wrote:

>  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.

Plus, in a world of working metadata standards and heavy pay-per-view, the
site will just self-spider and submit. Mutual benefit. The only problem is
when sites cheat, and that could be solved in a number of ways.

Sampo Syreeni <decoy at iki.fi>, aka decoy, student/math/Helsinki university





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