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...different, and it works--like much else about Google. Page and Brin license the Google engine to other dotcoms, but they charge per search instead of the usual flat rate, which is why they expect to turn a profit soon. They built the site with parts from 6,000 off-the-shelf PCs--huge, unruly piles of spaghetti wiring and lasagna-layered motherboards that actually run cheaper and faster than mess-free, million-dollar servers. And they refuse to offer the top-heavy extras you'll find crammed onto every other major search engine (stock quotes, sports scores...
...story about new for-profit political websites [BUSINESS, Aug. 14] reported that the Vote.com site allows politicos to purchase e-mail lists and information from online surveys. This was incorrect. Vote.com does not sell either e-mail lists or user information from surveys. Vote.com's privacy policy protects its more than 1 million registered voters and has never been violated. TIME regrets the error...
With dotcoms imploding and voter apathy growing, this may seem an ill-omened time to launch a for-profit political website. Yet the Republican Convention swarmed last week with a new breed of dotcoms that offered everything from predictable punditry to floor-panning, 360[degree] webcams that online viewers could swivel with the click of a mouse...
...convention was both a litmus test and a coming-out party for the new for-profit political digerati, who occupied skyboxes and overflowed a media center that instantly became known as Internet Alley. At Voter.com a site reportedly backed by $50 million in venture capital, 35 computers in a Cyber Cafe spewed briefings, commentary and gavel-to-gavel coverage. "We want to combine really good traditional journalism with edgy contributions from the best guys," says Carl Bernstein, who as executive editor of Voter.com is among a bevy of Old Guard notables to be drawn to the brash new sites...
Gore's people should underestimate neither this dynamic nor the extent to which (contrary to stereotypes) their man has come to seem the candidate of the overbearing--Big Government, big unions, big minorities, big money, big Hollywood and a million moms. In a screwy way, George W. Bush may profit from a counterintuitive inclination of Americans to associate him with the little...