Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 13:24:53 +0530
From: Manish Mankad
I have some thoughts on the lines of Vasumathi.
Well, we can not compare share purchase with information pickup.. if u still
insist it to be the same, let us ask an honest question to those who did
online share purchase WITHOUT expert advice and how many of them actually
lost money bec their knowledge abt the company was superfluous i.e.
something similar when u get first few hits on public search engines..If u
get it right once does not guarantee anything.
Idea is not to impose ourselves but to save the time of the users by giving
them relevant info with least of the noise content. Ask any scientist who
has filed the patent and has done a prior art search..To find out a
seemingly simple concept, device, technique hidden under a mass of literaute
is a task in itself. This is in the light of availability of built-in expert
systems and full text search capabilities of the databases. The scientists
willingly seek Info specialits help in doing so and is not surprising bec
failure to detect a similar idea wd mean a huge avoidable expense.
-Manish Mankad
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-----Original Message-----
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 15:30:26 +0530
From: Sukhdev Singh
Dear Friends,
Let us be honest!
Do not we ourselves go quickly go to google. And let us be frank, most
of the times, it serves our purpose. We do not always need a
comprehensive overview of all the [quality] literature available to
answer our query. We do not always need a comprehensive literature
search. Two or three hits answer our query.
Trust, what the users say!!!!
People are breaking free and are becoming self-reliant! They need less
dependency on specialists.
Do not we indulge in Self-Medication?
Earlier we use to lose money through share-brokers. Now we can do the
same ourselves, Online!!.
--Sukhdev Singh
