Yes, but that doesn't stop people from adding more slots than they can realistically handle.
The skills, knowledge, and resources to produce 1k widgets is totally different than producing 1MM widgets. I might be able to brute-force manufacture 1k widgets from my garage and that would kickstart the business if that's my skill and scale estimate. I need staff, facilities and a different type of supplier if I need to make millions, and I may not have what it takes to deliver on that.
> Not only does this shit fly but Google are doing it on their own websites.
I am not claiming Google is benevolent. As I mentioned above, if a user searches for "rails select in query" and the user clicks on experts-exchange result summary showing partial answer only to be taken to the page where answers are hidden, the user failed to find something on Google. May be he will blame experts-exchange, but he will blame Google as well.
> EDIT: I'm guessing you don't believe me.
I am guessing you were downvoted. I didn't downvote you. If fact, you can't downvote immediate replies to your post. Since you directly replied to my post, the downvote link doesn't appear for me for your reply.
I just want to point out that search results like Quora or Experts-exchange, are definitely not going away. Some websites might be penalized here and there but I haven't seen any consistent efforts to stop them.
Google wants to index as much content as possible. It's providing incentive to content owners to let Google index it. As pointed out by another commenter, clicking on the search result summary shows that document in full. It's only the subsequent clicks that can be paywalled.
> It's only the subsequent clicks that can be paywalled.
I find it annoying when that happens. Also, Google's recommendation is to allow 5 clicks a day and allow everyone with "GoogleBot" in their useragent. I wish the implementation was better.
> Is it asking to sign in? I tried in incognito mode and I could read the groups just fine.
You are right, I cleared my cookies and I stopped getting the login redirection.
I'd be OK with this if I could click on a search result link and actually read the web page; I wouldn't mind other links on that page leading to a please-sign-up.
The scummy thing here is that you're taken to a web page where the interesting content is hidden on the first page.
"an American aerospace engineer." "a BS degree in aeronautical engineering." Not anybody who is professionally involved with climate and climate effects in any way.
"Some claim that there are 31,000 U.S. scientists and over 850 peer-reviewed papers that challenge the consensus that humans are causing climate change. Skeptical Science gave these claims the greatest benefit of the doubt and came up with this interesting factoid:
31,000 scientists represents 0.1% of US scientists that hold a BS degree or higher
850 papers represents 0.1% of the peer-reviewed papers on the subject of climate change"
>I believe there is climate change, there always is. The idea that we are the sole cause or that we have the power to stop it, seems a little absurd.
There are a lot of us, and we've been pumping a lot of CO2 into the atmosphere for a long time. Things like the ozone hole or the long-term deforestation of Europe show that humanity is very capable of making substantial changes to the global climate.
We've created a lot of problems, yes. We need more energy, more food, more clean water. We need to clean up our soils, we need to plant some new forests.
The focus on cutting CO2 emissions seems misplaced.
Have you any idea what the effects of a 10m rise in global sea levels would be? There are plenty of problems for humanity to deal with, but few more important or urgent than that.
This is the guy I was thinking about, and reading WildTanget's material it looks like Oouya should take its Kickstarter proceeds and buy WildTangent to get their Ad patent portfolio and a an implementation of their business model :-)
