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To: Original Mad Dog who wrote (15912)12/6/1998 1:19:00 AM
From: HG  Read Replies (1) of 27307
 
MadDog,

<the fight to capture eyeballs a zero sum game.>
<<Help me out of my mental cage here, please. >>

My pleasure. I will try to analyse the usage. Please feel free to correct me if I am wrong in my assumptions or conclusion.

The average time spent by a netsurfer was posted on YHOO board, I don't remember it offhand. Lets say for arguement sake it is 5 hours per day.

Lets say at any point in time 100 people use internet for 5 hours per day. thats 500 hours of netsurfing.

Lets now say there are 3 internet portals (a al MSFT/AOL/YHOO).

Assuming nothing else except the portals are visited, this means that the 3 portals are vying for 500 hours of netsurfing activity. Any time gained by one of them is at the expense of the other two. if there was infinite number of netsurfing hours at any given time, each would/could have any number of hours, but because of the limited number of available hours, if a person is visiting YHOO for an hour, he is prevented from visiting MSFT or AOL. Thus he/she visits YHOO at the expense of the other two. The sum total of gains and losses is zero because hours are finite and limited.

Of course the hours will expand, but at any point in time, if we analyze the situation, the limited number of hours will HAVE to be distributed amongst the assumed 3 (or more) portals,and the gain in traffic at one site will always be at the expense of another.

Can anyone else verify or dispute this logic ?
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