Heh. One of the small advantages of living in Japan
is that I can access web services while most of the
internet world is asleep. I shall surely have to get
an agent of my own...
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> Actually, WebCompass Personal (the freely downloadable metasearch/summary on
> demand tool) _does_ pass through banner ads from the search engines to the
This is fascinating. It is the first case I've heard
of of advertising being forwarded among services.
I need to think about the ramifications of this to
distributed searching in general...
I'll have to check out the product. I'm curious about
how you handle multiple advertisements and also if
the user can turn off the advertisement...
PF