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To: levy who wrote (18785)	5/1/2000 7:04:00 PM
From: Pareto	Read Replies (3) of 28311

Go2net's (lack of) international presence We have to remember that the Mediametrix numbers only reflect the US-users. Some stats: Global users: between 288 and 300 million US users: 120 million US English users: 115 million US Spanish users: 10 million US English % of global population: 40% Sources and links. nua.ie glreach.com glreach.com limitless.co.uk Most assume that the growth potential of GNET is related to the growth of the internet in general. If GNET limits itself to the English speaking world and the US in specific, then it won't be able to get international leverage. Growth rates will slow. In the US the reach of the Go2net network maybe 10% (12 Million divided by 115 Million), but globally it will be less than 5% and getting smaller. More and more I get the idea that GNET is putting broadband development for the US first and global expansion last. The 100hot concept would be very useful to expand to country sites. This is a simple idea and should be easy to implement. But why others have implement it before GNET??? Check out the worldhot.com website. They have copied the 100hot concept. They have registered their site last October and are live now with 100hot sites for most countries of the world. register.com I tried to host an international website through Hypermart. It was not possible. I send them a mail and they answered that they only allow .com .net and .org sites to be used. That doesn't make me happy as a user, less as a shareholder. They allow international users to use a nnnn.hypermart.net name, but I want to use my own sitename. Hosting international sites is possible on many US-hosts. On a sidenote, they use an ugly old-fashioned newsgroup set up for Q&A on Hypermart. Why they don't use a SI-type of interface? I mentioned before the US focus of SI. Why not covering other stockmarkets as well?? The internet will count 1 Billion users within two or three years. To be able to get a fair share of this pie, GNET has to expand its offering globally. That means multi-country and multi-language. The top portals are moving this way. Yahoo, AOL, MSN and Lycos. MSN is using the country offices of Microsoft, they may be able to grow the fastest. msn.com Gnet doesn't have the resources to open local offices. To get global visibility, it is a viable option to set up a metacrawler/100hot page for each country and deliver it in the main languages. Regards, Pareto

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