Good Incentive / Bad Incentive

In the concept of NooTag we often mention the use of economic incentives. We believe that incentives are the most effective measure for getting users to maximize public welfare, or in more simple words to make sure that users would act in a way that would leave just about everyone better off, rather than acting […]

The economical path towards the future search engine

One of Alex’s articles was published on Alt Search Engines today. The article talks about how we see the future of the Search Engine market and illustrates why progress has to be made in a way that differs from the current one.
We are not publishing it here because it’s exclusive for Alt Search Engines but […]

Why websites don’t get their money?

   First of all I’d like to put in order the sequence of the discussion in this blog. Earlier, I’ve claimed that the quality of the information on the Internet is too low due to the failure of the search engines to perform their role as mediators in the information market. At this point I’m […]

Do search engines fulfill their economic function?

Or, what a historian and a penis enlargement expert have in common?
     As I’ve mentioned in my previous post, there are two actions to be done by the mediator in order to satisfy both the suppliers and the consumers – transfer suitable information against appropriate reward. For example, a book publisher publishes the best books on […]

Why the quality of Information on the Internet is too low?

Search Engine’s role and preformance in the Information market

     Let’s see who the main players in the information market are. First of all there are the suppliers, people who produce information, like writers, authors, filmmakers, journalists, bloggers, scholars etc. From the opposite side there are the information consumers; those include virtually the entire humankind. In the […]