My 2003 Prediction: Google Will Make You Pay for Daily Refreshes

In: business models|search engines

22 Dec 2002

There’s speculation in a few places that Google might want to allow web sites to ping it when they’re updated. Yes, that would make sense. What would be even more sense is for Google to make us pay for the service. Inclusion in the monthly index would still be free, but if you need real-time updates, you need to pay. Beyond paid inclusion: paid refresh.

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