Archive for April 13th, 1999

SEARCH AND YE SHALL OBSESS

April 13, 1999

“The economy of the search engines, on which Wall Street has staked billions of dollars, is sort of based on this obsessive behavior.”

Marita Sturken, a USC professor and student of popular culture, on how surfers browsing for Pamela Anderson Lee are the hidden engine of the Net economy, ZDNN/WSJ Interactive, 13 April 1999