Comments on: Voice Post 2: Privacy, Ask, etc. http://battellemedia.com/archives/2007/07/voice_post_2_privacy_ask_etc.php?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=voice_post_2_privacy_ask_etc Thoughts on the intersection of search, media, technology, and more. Thu, 23 May 2013 12:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: JG http://battellemedia.com/archives/2007/07/voice_post_2_privacy_ask_etc.php#comment-9927 JG Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:55:35 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2007/07/voice_post_2_privacy_ask_etc.php#comment-9927 <p>Om writes: "For a nominal fee of say a $1 a month, they should offer us ability to erase our search behavior every week."</p> <p>While I agree with the spirit of Om's post, it really bothers me that we would have to pay extra to stop a search engine company from doing something that costs them extra, to begin with. It would be cheaper for the search engines not to cache any queries because they wouldn't have to buy all the extra hard drives, and more processors to handle the caching and the data management.</p> <p>So why should it cost me anything, for them to save even more money? A premium service, in my mind, should be the one where I explicitly ask them to cache my queries so that I can make use of them, personally, later. The default, non-premium service should be the one in which they don't spend the extra hardware, software, and electricity costs caching all my queries.</p> Om writes: “For a nominal fee of say a $1 a month, they should offer us ability to erase our search behavior every week.”

While I agree with the spirit of Om’s post, it really bothers me that we would have to pay extra to stop a search engine company from doing something that costs them extra, to begin with. It would be cheaper for the search engines not to cache any queries because they wouldn’t have to buy all the extra hard drives, and more processors to handle the caching and the data management.

So why should it cost me anything, for them to save even more money? A premium service, in my mind, should be the one where I explicitly ask them to cache my queries so that I can make use of them, personally, later. The default, non-premium service should be the one in which they don’t spend the extra hardware, software, and electricity costs caching all my queries.

]]> By: Keith Teare http://battellemedia.com/archives/2007/07/voice_post_2_privacy_ask_etc.php#comment-9926 Keith Teare Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:27:49 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2007/07/voice_post_2_privacy_ask_etc.php#comment-9926 <p>Now - if my baby realnames.com was still alive you could just say the keyword instead of calling out links :-)</p> <p>Maybe I should resusitate it. Hmmmm</p> <p>Keith Teare</p> Now – if my baby realnames.com was still alive you could just say the keyword instead of calling out links :-)

Maybe I should resusitate it. Hmmmm

Keith Teare

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