[LINK] Across america, a troubling 'digital divide'

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-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Hughes <effectivebusiness@pplications.com.au>
Date: Wednesday, August 04, 1999 12:45 PM
Subject: RE: [LINK] Across america, a troubling 'digital divide'


>NSW public schools have internet connections also.  My son's primary
>school's ISDN gives slow response time - whether that's because of the
>filtering, or because the ISDN doesn't handle 4 or 5 students surfing
>at once, I have no idea.
>
>A major downside effect with the education system's filtering software
>is the time wasting from blocking of innocuous sites, and the
>following process:
>
>Enter a search into a search engine.
>Get back a list of urls.  (you know, 'displaying 1-20 of 43,365 hits')
>Click on the first one.
>Be told by the system that its not available (due to the filtering
>software)
>Click on the next one.
>Be told by the system that its not available
>etc
>
There may be a business opportunity in this
(Create a filter-ready search engine to clip
away (or shift to last place) any hits that are
"forbidden by gov't- or ISP-imposed filters")

Now, who wants to make a million with me
doing this... i.e. before the search-engine
houses beat us to it

(Is there no Search Engine operator who
offers a "value-added" service like this?

After all they may well be a good place to
locate the filters' no-no lists, among others)