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To: Robert Rose who wrote (7700)	6/20/1999 5:55:00 PM
From: Jeff Dryer	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 28311

>I see that SI does have some of that integration. Perhaps it is new? It is not new. SI was first to provide quote, chart, news links from discussion messages. We implemented current set-up in March 1998. Yahoo is probably the biggest copy-cat organization on the Web, yet most people rave about how innovative Yahoo is... it's not just Yahoo Finance, but also Yahoo Auctions (a complete copy of eBay), Yahoo email, and the whole Yahoo portal is a copy-cat version of AOL... in many respects just not as good. Yahoo Finance has spent the last 2 years cloning themselves to the SI site. Brad and I were in discussions with Yahoo Finance in March 1997 to be acquired. It didn't happen, so they built the Yahoo Finance message boards to function almost identical to SI, except the quality of posts isn't as high over at Yahoo and they haven't copied everything (the imitation is rarely as good as the real thing). >I will try to break the habit of my reliance on Yahoo Finance for >that info and stay right at SI where I want to be anyway <g>. I smell victory close at hand! >Jeff, and while I'm on a roll, here's another observation. I find >SI's charting package clumsy. Again, I prefer Yahoo Finance's. Is it >just the color scheme and the line widths? Go2Net has acquired IQC (which has better charts than Yahoo... maybe the best on the Web). The SI charts were programmed/developed more than 4 years ago. At the time, SI charts were free and considered by many investors to be the best on the Web. This is back when most companies were charging something like 25 cents to view a chart. I still think if you want to create a comparison chart of 2 or more stocks, SI is still very competitive. Yahoo doesn't offer such a chart, so here's a 52-week Go2Net/Yahoo comparison chart: techstocks.com