Do you think big buisness will take over the internet?

[Ari Rahikkala]

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[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly
And those with the most resources win; my father-in-law runs a very successful internet business, and spends an enormous amount of time, money, and resources staying on Google's first page.

Google ranks websites by relevance. There are a whole bunch of factors that go into it. Off the top of my head I remember two: sink and source. Sink refers to number of other websites link to the one being evaluated, source refers to number of websites to which it links.

Early 2004 a number of blogs took over the first page by linking to each other. So Google had to quickly fix its algorithm.

Search engines are one of the ways a person reach a website. Another one is word of mouth - like Polytubbies asking for advices here.

[Blake]

I believe that enough of the internet content doesn't revolve around money... The Opensource movement, Wikipedia, etc cannot really be taken over, they are designed so they cannot be...

The only way corporations could fully take over the internet is if the whole planet descends into a corporate police state allowing control of content at more of a hardware level, shutting down servers, firewalls that restrict content for millions of surfers, death penalty for hacking and such.

[chequita guevara]

Anyone who was around the internet over a decade ago knows how fully coporations have taken over. Corporate content used to be quite rare, now its the dominent feature.

[Last Conformist]

Originally posted by Vesayen
By "take over" it is meant in a malicious way. The internet will become a giant evil tool like the current media monopolies who will spoon feed us lies and most consumers will routinley be dupped by the evil big companies in a new medium.

There is a difference between capitalism taking over the internet and the industry and media giants.

This sounds like something from a textbook on leftwing tinfoil hatism.

[Last Conformist]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Anyone who was around the internet over a decade ago knows how fully coporations have taken over. Corporate content used to be quite rare, now its the dominent feature.

That doesn't mean there's less non-corporate content out there, tho. In fact, I'd say it's more.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Last Conformist
That doesn't mean there's less non-corporate content out there, tho. In fact, I'd say it's more.

It's a percentage game. User-generated content used to be 100% of what was on the internet. It's still the vast majority of what's out there (remembering that email, ftp, etc., are also part of the internet, not merely the web), but corporations dominate the scene.

[Ming]

While corporations have dramitically increased their number of content pages, the strength of sites is still based on providing something that somebody wants.

Sites that people want are what dominate the web. While the leading "sites" (in terms of page views and users) are mostly the portals like AOL, MSN, Yahoo... search engines like Google... and media sites like ESPN, USA Today... there are still tons of smaller sites that, in total, get far more page views. A corporation can put tons of pages/content up, but if nobody cares, it's just a waste of time on their part.

Sites that provide a real service will continue to strive... Who owns them really doesn't matter. Domination comes from good content/service... and that, anybody can provide, not just big business.

[Last Conformist]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara


It's a percentage game. User-generated content used to be 100% of what was on the internet. It's still the vast majority of what's out there (remembering that email, ftp, etc., are also part of the internet, not merely the web), but corporations dominate the scene.

So what? If we had alot of non-corp stuff, and we know have even more non-corp stuff plus lots fo corp stuff, surely that's an improvement by any standard?