@Kae: Your analogy is way off the mark. We're talking about digital media that can have infinite perfect copies, not finite candy bars (as Valkor points out). I think it should be closer to: Is it stealing if I took a picture of the candy bar, and then stood outside and showed the customers and told that it is delicious, and that they should go buy one? Absolutely not.
You say you noticed the high cost, met a bunch of people from big cities online, and are acutely aware of what you're missing, but fail to describe what that is.
He was trying to buy a camera in-store that he had seen online. After an hour+ of waiting/talking with the manager/more waiting/seeing the in-store website/arguing, he had to go home, print the page that he saw, and return to the store to get the sale price. I happened to be shopping there that day, and after hearing his ordeal and an extremely rude comment from a sales person to another customer, I dropped all of my items on the floor, left, and have never been back.
Yes, I think you are reading it wrong. Those stats show that yahoo.com has more traffic, true, but remember that yahoo.com is a web portal, not just a search engine (which google.com is, unless you have it set to a personalized homepage). So I think that not everyone is going there just for search. AND, how many people actually have search toolbars installed in their browsers that never go to the home page?
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@Kae: Your analogy is way off the mark. We're talking about digital media that can have infinite perfect copies, not finite candy bars (as Valkor points out). I think it should be closer to: Is it stealing if I took a picture of the candy bar, and then stood outside and showed the customers and told that it is delicious, and that they should go buy one? Absolutely not.
So what is it that you're missing?
You say you noticed the high cost, met a bunch of people from big cities online, and are acutely aware of what you're missing, but fail to describe what that is.
This actually happened to a friend of mine
He was trying to buy a camera in-store that he had seen online. After an hour+ of waiting/talking with the manager/more waiting/seeing the in-store website/arguing, he had to go home, print the page that he saw, and return to the store to get the sale price. I happened to be shopping there that day, and after hearing his ordeal and an extremely rude comment from a sales person to another customer, I dropped all of my items on the floor, left, and have never been back.
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Yes, I think you are reading it wrong. Those stats show that yahoo.com has more traffic, true, but remember that yahoo.com is a web portal, not just a search engine (which google.com is, unless you have it set to a personalized homepage). So I think that not everyone is going there just for search. AND, how many people actually have search toolbars installed in their browsers that never go to the home page?