[Billthedrill]

Acting against this tendency is something that every online retailer and market research firm already knows - this sort of data is expensive to gather and maintain and sure as all git out won't be given away for free, not even to the gummint. Data may be immortal but they sure ain't free.

It does get to be a bit interesting at times. I bought a bodice-ripper novel as a Christmas present for some relatives of mine from Amazon and for quite a long time my "suggestions" were, ah, a little outside the envelope of my normal purchases. I wish the gummint analysts luck with that one. My guess is that anyone acting on that data will be sorely disappointed... ;-)

[teeman8r]

nail on the head bill the drill...

with billions upon billions of such transactions... can it be said the investment of the VC will most likely be a money pit...

just like the global warming models... the actual environment is just too vast to predict.

teeman