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Technology Stocks : America On-Line: will it survive ...?
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To: Sam who wrote (8732)3/10/1998 11:52:00 AM
From: Yikes  Read Replies (2) of 13594
 
I have looked at Yahoo! lately, in fact every day. 50 million "users" for Yahoo! means 50 million free e-mail addresses, not real "members." Anyone can sign up for free e-mail, and never use it once. I can't remember how many times I have signed up for stuff on the net - and have never gone back to that site.

Last I checked, AOL is going for the advertising dollars. There is no better attraction on the Internet than FREE service. That's what Yahoo! has, AOL doesn't. Yahoo! is as well known as Bill Gates, except everyone likes Yahoo!. The 50 million is roughly the number of people that use the web. And who goes to Yahoo!? Everyone.

As for AOL "...not competing. Period." I'm LOL!!!!! What are you basing your lucid research on? Further, you think Yahoo! never goes down or has service problems? Maybe you haven't used it enough. Quotes go down often - just look for the nice red letter at the top of saying sorry.

Again, the difference is price of service. Yahoo! is like free network TV, AOL is a premium satellite movie channel. How much does it cost to advertise on NBC vs HBO? That's right, they don't advertise on on HBO because people pay for movies not ads.

You must have made tons of money on the street, since you can look into a crystal ball and predict that AOL will drop 15+ points in one day. I guess you also predicted the INTC fiasco, CPQ and DELL.

I would be rich if I can predict the date that AOL will drop 15+ points. Investing is not about precise prediction like that. You know that.

Let's just see what happens in the next conference call. :-)
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