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Non-Tech : Tulipomania Blowoff Contest: Why and When will it end?

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To: Sir Auric Goldfinger who wrote (583)	1/10/1999 10:18:00 PM
From: Timothy R. West	Read Replies (2) of 3543

My sense is that Investors are the most active users of YAHOO's site. Since Yahoo's finance site is excellent and easy to use and it is SO EASY TO ENTER THEIR INVESTMENT COMPETITION and easy to trade that I just assumed that YAHOO was finding ways to increase the number of click at their site by making it so fast and easy to click and click and click... I scanned through the INVESTMENT COMPETITION to see what the leaders were doing and I found that many of the leaders traded over 100 times over the course of a month. You need to click at least 10 times for each buy/sell trade, then you can see how the CLICKS add up. If many of YAHOO's click at their site are just "white lies" or "not meaningful measures" of activity... then their could be some serious downside to these stocks once people realize that CLICKS are a USELESS way to measure advertising rates. It is my belief that YAHOO is valued based on clicks. YAHOO has been smart to find ways to increase the number of clicks at their site, but you can only keep a game like this going for so long before the people who PAY the money to YAHOO find out. Does this answer your question? I have so many ideas in my head about this group that I often can't explain my thoughts succinctly and clearly. Regards, Tim West

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