Why is the stated goal to maximize usefulness and convenience for the largest number of people rather than the conventional business goal of maximizing profits?
This goal is consistent with the original purpose of the Internet, which was to develop a universally useful information and educational resource. Although the Internet has become an excellent tool for making profits, there are still many people around the world who are interested in further enhancing its value as a quality information and education resource. A tremendous demand exists for such resources, and the Internet has a vast and still largely untapped potential for fulfilling it. There is certainly nothing wrong with the goal of maximizing profits, and there is no reason that the two types of sites cannot coexist on the Internet. ________ 1Even though search mechanisms will be of little value on LINMO-compatible sites, they are nevertheless automatically available for those individuals who insist that they want to search the site using a search engine. That is, it is possible to search any site that is fully indexed on the Google search engine by using that search engine. For e
