ONLINE-ADS>> Re: Site abuse? What's a guy to do?

David Beroff (david_at_note.com)
Wed, 16 Oct 1996 02:59:33 -0400

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> From: Peter Hartley <hartley_at_shop.hartley.on.ca>
> it is simple enough to add a line that checks that the referring page was
> the correct one and to force the user back to the front end it it weasn't.
> This recovers the lost exposure, but at some cost of the search engine's
> exposure. Like everything else to do with computers and networked
> resources, an appropriate compromise has to be made.

After reading this thread, I think I feel most comfortable
with Peter's approach, with perhaps the one addition
that I would add as a courtesy: take the original search
request and populate the fill-out form with the same.
You still get the ads, and the user feels a pinch better that
they don't have to retype what they just typed.

(and to head off the argument that not doing the above
would force the user to stay a pinch longer: yes, but
that additional time would be spent typing and grumbling,
not being receptive to the ads.)

-- David

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