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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Park [mailto:]
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> 2. Web services allow Google to be on the desktop.
>
> Yes, I can see a lot of use for having Google on the desktop.
> But how can web service-based Google application developers
> compete with HTML scrapping apps that doesn't have to pay
> Google any money?
I couldn't really parse the question, but have you tried to build
anything interesting out of screenscraping? It sucks, free results
or otherwise. Paying some bucks for a regular grammar is worth it.
> Google could:
>
> a. litigate HTML scraping application developers into going
> underground or passing ads through to application GUI.
>
> b. offer web services-based features not available through HTML.
>
> I don't see (a) being very effective. (b) will work but
> requires fairly significant investment.
How so, significant?
> 3. Google appliance
>
> If this is the only way Google can justify their API, wake me
> up when there is news.
Why the scorn? have you concluded that a webserviced Google has no
valid proposition? Tell us more, please.
Bill de hÓra
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