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Technology Stocks : GoTo.com, promising Internet search engine
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To: Liren Chen who wrote (456)7/24/1999 7:13:00 PM
From: Mr. Aloha  Read Replies (1) of 977
 
AltaVista screwed up from the beginning.

First, they weren't going to show a difference between paid listings and non-paid listings...

Then you needed to pay $.25 to start.

Then you needed to spend too much time thinking about your placement, bidding, lock-in period etc...

The whole process was flawed.

GoTo has the right idea but they have some problems too.

I used GoTo. I enjoyed the extra visitors but it didn't make sense to keep paying them money when the net result was weak. I tried difference web sites and products - same results.

How many people want to pay $50 per month for something that most won't notice the difference with?

I stopped using GoTo and it had NO effect on the business.

I might be a freak case, but I doubt it.

For some businesses it may makes perfect sense. Obviously casino's don't mind paying stupid prices. That shows how much they make per customer.... :-)

GoTo will continue to do well because the business model works. I don't think they're reach the goals that some have posted here. You'd see a lot of other BIG NAMES appear within a month or two to participate in the EXACT same manner. Which brings up the point about their recent "patent pending" notice on the second pages of the web sites.

hmmmmm.......
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