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Strategies & Market Trends : Yahoo and other bubbles...when will they burst?
YHOO 52.580.0%Jun 26 5:00 PM EST
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To: Rick_Barry who wrote (125)4/6/1999 7:34:00 PM
From: vor  Read Replies (1) of 139
 
Yhoo is a concept, this is true. But so is NBC, ABC, and other tv stations. Anyone can run a tv station, but only a select few draw the audience. The quality of yhoo isn't relevant right now. Their prevelance is. I use yahoo's finance page every day and I also get e-mail on yahoo. Why? Because they were the first ones to offer me free e-mail. Why would I decide to create a new e-mail account? Even if someone could give me faster access to e-mail, it would be a real pain in the ass to give a new address to everyone I know. Further, I am sure yahoo will be around for a while and my e-mail account will continue. If I open an account with other providers I might wake up one morning unable to access e-mail.

Bottom line, yahoo has over 50 million users right now. I think this will increase before it decreases. If I meet someone who just got connected to the internet, and he asked me where to get e-mail. I would say yahoo. Why? Because that's what I use. I'm not saying it's the best search engine (I really don't know, I don't use searches much), but I am saying that they have the most users and this will multiply by word of mouth.

Just my opinion
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