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To: im~ristine who wrote (1604)	6/15/1999 3:27:00 PM
From: Sir Auric Goldfinger	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3543

it's Netscape® Communicator 4.04, still nuthin.

To: im~ristine who wrote (1604)	6/15/1999 3:36:00 PM
From: Sir Auric Goldfinger	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3543

More People Used Internet in May, Web Study Shows Princeton, New Jersey, June 15 (Bloomberg) -- More people used the Internet in May than in April and spent more time on the Web. Internet measurement service Nielsen/NetRatings said visitors to the top 10 Web sites, which include Yahoo! Inc., Lycos Inc. and Microsoft Corp.'s MSN, increased by 8.7 percent in May. That follows a 4 percent decline in April from March. Nielsen collects data from about 15,000 panelists as they surf the Web. The average Internet surfer spent 36 minutes and 13 seconds on the Web, compared to 29 minutes, 13 seconds in May, a 22 percent increase. America Online Inc.'s Web sites had the most visitors, with 33.9 million people logging on. Ranking next were Yahoo with 26 million, MSN with 22.1 million and Lycos with 19.3 million. The number of visitors to the top Web sites is a good indicator of overall Internet activity, since they represent about 90 percent of total Internet activity, Nielsen said. There were significant increases in audience size in several categories, including a 16 percent increase in travel and a 14.6 percent increase in shopping, Nielsen said. Nielsen/NetRatings, is an Internet measurement service of Nielsen Media Research.