Research Paper on:
Free Frontier WWW

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not only has been difficult to control in a capitalistic way but in fact remains a free frontier. Businesses which have in fact put into place a process which is  meant to control their users actually only leads their users through a pre-selected process. The use of this process however is user controlled as users and companies acknowledge that the  users are able to exist at any time and choose another product or page from the millions that are available. The concept of control of the world wide web lessens  with each day as it continues to include areas within the global community and also continues to be the new frontier which offers limitless opportunity by all who utilize it.  In a recent article by Glendal P. Robinson (2002), the author tries to explain for readers commodification as "the process of developing things  and concepts and even people into saleable products" and that the web which was initially established to share information freely has become the latest victim in a capitalist society. While  it may be the case that more and more components within the web sphere are being capitalized upon, the web overall contains many more elements which are free to the  user and alternatives to those elements which have been capitalized upon. Rather than a sense of control which many people believe has infected the world wide web, it has instead  undergone a limited sense of selection which many people equate with control. This can be found in the environment of the search engines. While users believe they are searching the  entirety of the web when they do a search on Yahoo or EBay, they are in fact searching sites and affiliated databases which have been selected, from a business perspective,