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Technology Stocks : America On-Line: will it survive ...?
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To: Sam who wrote (8732)3/10/1998 6:05:00 PM
From: rhet0ric   of 13594
 
How do we know Yahoo! has 50 million users? Who audited the numbers?

I assume that both AOL and Yahoo are audited. Advertisers wouldn't pay them if they didn't know how many page views they are actually getting. AOL and Yahoo may or may not make those numbers public, however.

Further, you think Yahoo! never goes down or has service problems?

There's a huge difference between AOL going down and Yahoo going down. Yahoo is a collection of Internet servers, while AOL is a proprietary network with a gateway to the Internet. Yahoo benefits from the superior network design of TCP/IP. They can mirror servers, provide redundancy, etc. When something goes down on Yahoo, it's usually just one server. But when AOL goes down, the whole damn thing does down. Period. No users can even sign on.

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