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Has anyone else seen that 'Web Gravity' have been chosen as the European paid inclusion partners for Inktomi?
http://inktomi.webgravity.co.uk/
http://www.positiontech.com/inktomi/

Well, that's good I thought - now I can see the price in pounds instead of dollars. Ha! Inktomi thinks that the British are all as stupid as GoTo thinks we are.
Let us, for one moment, compare the prices of paying in dollars through Positiontech, and paying in sterling through Web gravity:

Position Tech: Pages Price per URL :
1st Page $20.00
Pages 2-100 $10.00
Pages 101 + $6.00

Web Gravity: Pages Price per URL :
First Page: £24.99 = $36.46
Pages 2+ £10.00 = $14.59

10 pages with Position Tech costs $110
100 pages with Position Tech costs $1010
200 pages with Position Tech costs $1610
10 pages with Web Gravity costs $167.77
100 pages with Web Gravity costs $1480.47
200 pages with Web Gravity costs $2939.87

That's right. For exactly the same service, you can pay 50 - 100% more. What a bargain. Have I missed something? Is there some difference in service that compensates for the ridiculous price? Is my maths wrong?

-- Anthony Butcher - tony@searchenginewarriors.com

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