| As in the publications world, in the long run some kind of membership or subscription service probably makes more pricing sense for business customers. So does an appeal based on information you can?t dig up yourself. I?d rather pay to access a product that gave me publications, statistics, charts, and names that aren?t available on the public web ? or to Google?s researchers. Factiva, Nexis and the like have courted big companies as their clients, and haven?t traditionally cared much about the lower prices that smaller customers might pay. Maybe Google would have a better business replacing those players as premium content aggregators and packagers than building an EBay for Web searching. More on this soon as it relates to more industry-specific product ideas. -- Posted by Thomas Baker to Open Field Partners at 5/29/2002 4:13:12 PM Powered by Blogger Pro ---------------------------------- You're receiving this because you once asked to receive e-mail updates from Open Field Partners. If you want them to stop, you can unsubscribe at http://www.openfieldpartners.com/blogger.html, or you can forward this e-mail to Tom Baker (tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) and he'll make it happen. (c)2002 Open Field Partners. |
