Hmmm... you know, I'm a researcher professionally and a fundraiser for at heart, and I'm all for anecdotal evidence, but I'm not sure this really is based in anything either quantifiable or qualitative in nature.
This discussion and any decisions the Foundation makes on this incredibly important topic in the future can certainly be emotionally based but let's not present emotion and description (ie, "increasingly pushy") as fact, unless we can quantify or qualify them.
Anything less is at best emotionally charged and at worst intellectually dishonest.
_____________________ Philippe Beaudette Tulsa, OK philippebeaudette@gmail.com
On Aug 20, 2008, at 2:46 PM, geni wrote:
The increasingly pushy ads we see from everything not actually owned by Google.
-- geni