From: blockedofcourse@foo.invalid   
      
   On 1/27/2026 6:45 AM, Liz Tuddenham wrote:   
   > Don Y  wrote:   
   >   
   > [...]   
   >> ...How is providing   
   >> 70,000 hits going to improve the shopping experience for this POTENTIAL   
   >> customer?   
   >   
   > The first 10 hits will generate advertising revenue for the search   
   > engine.  That's what it is there to do; you are the product, not the   
   > customer.   
      
   At a *store's* web site, the goal is for the store to sell a   
   PRODUCT that they have in stock (as known by the literal description   
   of the item on THEIR web page).   
      
   They gain nothing if they point me at products that are not what I   
   expressly sought.  All 73,000 of them!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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