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Strategies & Market Trends : Cents and Sensibility - Kimberly and Friends' Consortium

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To: JeanD who wrote (21356)10/29/1999 5:31:00 PM
From: amadeus  Read Replies (1) of 108040
 
regarding ecommerce, saw this news about growth of online shopping:

biz.yahoo.com
>>SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 28, 1999--Online shopping has overtaken pornography as the fastest growing category on the Web, according to recent Internet trend data from Websense, Inc.

After years of monitoring growth of different types of Web sites for its customers, Websense has discovered online shopping has spiked to a near 140 percent growth rate in the last six months, while e-porn growth has slowed to 48 percent during the same period. Since 1997, pornography has grown consistently by more than 100 percent per year.
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