- Zeal set to close
- Posted by Matt Probert on March 23rd, 2006
Apparently, Looksmart have announced that Zeal (the platform that
allows people to share their favorite sites and improve search results
for their fellow Internet users worldwide) is set to close as of 28th
of March.
Matt
- Posted by Dylan Parry on March 23rd, 2006
Pondering the eternal question of "Hobnobs or Rich Tea?", Matt Probert
finally proclaimed:
Never heard of it. Do you have a URL for it? Not that it really matters
if they are closing it down anyway :\
--
Dylan Parry
http://electricfreedom.org -- Where the Music Progressively Rocks!
- Posted by SpaceGirl on March 23rd, 2006
Matt Probert wrote:
We should start our own
- Posted by Who Turned Off The Lights? on March 23rd, 2006
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:44:54 GMT, Matt Probert wrote:
Wow, I didn't even realise they were still around. I'd become a zealot
years ago only to forget about it soon after.
- Posted by Justin Koivisto on March 23rd, 2006
Who Turned Off The Lights? wrote:
same here.
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Justin Koivisto, ZCE - justin@koivi.com
http://koivi.com
- Posted by Charles Sweeney on March 23rd, 2006
Matt Probert wrote
Never 'eard of it.
--
Charles Sweeney
http://CharlesSweeney.com
- Posted by Blinky the Shark on March 23rd, 2006
Justin Koivisto wrote:
There should be an old saying (Yo, Confucius!) that a fire stoked too
quickly soon burns up all its fuel.
--
Blinky T. "no, son, let's *walk* down there and f**k them all" Shark
- Posted by Red E. Kilowatt on March 23rd, 2006
Matt Probert <www@probertencyclopaedia.com> wrote in message:
4422b3ee.3760859@news.ntlworld.com,
Good riddance.
This, "the platform that allows people to share their favorite sites and
improve search results
for their fellow Internet users worldwide" is what they claim but it's
not true. Any site deemed commercial (any advertising on any of the
site's pages) is rejected. Many a webmaster (myself included) has been
suckered into jumping through the various hoops required before one can
submit a site only to find out that they can't get their sites listed;
that only LookSmart employees are allowed to submit commercial sites and
they rarely do that unless they are paid submissions.
Zeal was really a tactic for generating paid advertising for LookSmart
and way for Looksmart to profit from the free labor of those who bought
into the "help build the best search engine" nonsense.
But I'm not bitter. :-)
Just annoyed that I wasted so much time on it before I realized what was
really going on.
--
Red
