From healthmaps@home.com Sun Jul 29 08:25:12 2001 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f6TFPB0128158 for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 08:25:11 -0700 Received: from femail28.sdc1.sfba.home.com (imail@femail28.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.254.60.18]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f6TFPAF21577 for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 08:25:11 -0700 Received: from c501552d ([24.19.225.248]) by femail28.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with SMTP id <20010729152510.WLWX554.femail28.sdc1.sfba.home.com@c501552d> for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 08:25:10 -0700 From: "Richard Hoskins" To: Subject: RE: WAPHGIS: a list of search engines Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 08:25:07 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 In-Reply-To: I did not know about this - I just can't get over this notion I have in my head that folks tend to be working from decent motives. Guess I'll never learn. So one could just stop using: The sites are iWon.com, Lycos, MSN.com, Netscape, Altavista, Direct Hit, HotBot and Looksmart until they clean themselves up. (likely there are more) Can firewall software help with this kind of thing? Also http://www.adsubtract.com/ has a free add blocker, which I am now just trying out. Dick Hoskins Spatial Epidemiology Office of the Assistant Secretary Epidemiology, Health Statistics and Public Health Laboratories WA State Dept of Health Olympia, WA (360) 236-4270 richard.hoskins@doh.wa.gov GMT -7 "The Department of Health works to protect and improve the health of people in Washington State." -----Original Message----- From: WAPHGIS-owner@u.washington.edu [mailto:WAPHGIS-owner@u.washington.edu]On Behalf Of Franz Calvo Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 6:14 PM To: waphgis@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: WAPHGIS: a list of search engines Dear Richard Hoskins, We have just received a valuable list of search engines. Here is a side of search engines we should be aware of: Search engines are selling results to advertisers ... without giving proper advice to their regular users. References are listed below. Franz =========================================================== Key Internet Search Engines Accused of Misleading Users http://www.latimes.com/business/la-000058329jul17.story JUBE SHIVER Jr. July 17 2001 Web: Complaint filed with FTC charges firms like Netscape and Lycos with failing to disclose influence of paid ads. Group Accuses Search Engines of Deceptive Advertising http://www.dmnews.com/cgi-bin/artprevbot.cgi?article_id=16195 July 17, 2001 By: Janet A. Hines Commercial Alert, described on its Web site as "protecting children and communities from commercialism," said it filed a complaint yesterday with the Federal Trade Commission against eight search-engine companies, alleging deceptive advertising. 'Fess Up, Search Engines By Jen Muehlbauer Jul 17 2001 http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,27975,00.html A consumer group says advertising money can make you look better on a search engine. Internet search engines charged with deception http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/010716/n16366515_2.html By Andrew Quinn Monday July 16 SAN FRANCISCO, July 16 (Reuters) - Eight major Internet search engines were accused of deception Monday as a consumer group demanded that the Federal Trade Commission investigate whether they are coughing up ``ads in disguise'' in response to user queries. Group led by Ralph Nader accuses search engines of deception By Michael Liedtke July 16, 2001 http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2001/07/16/nader/index.html Attacking an increasingly popular Internet business practice, a consumer watchdog group Monday filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission asserting that many online search engines are concealing the impact special fees have on search results by Internet users. =============================================================== >From: "Richard Hoskins" >Reply-To: waphgis@u.washington.edu >To: "WAPHGIS" >Subject: WAPHGIS: a list of search engines >Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 14:04:41 -0700 > >A list of search engines. I f someone knows one that is oriented towards, >health, epidemiology, GIS, geography, biostatistics please let us know > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp .