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Technology Stocks : InfoSpace (INSP): Where GNET went! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sandintoes who wrote (9872)	7/20/1999 7:59:00 PM
From: RTev	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28311

Maybe you'd better go back and give it more than a "cursory glance ". And why should I? In my few visits there, I've clicked on dozens of the hundreds of sites available, and I've yet to see anything that would prompt me to return. In that sense, it's very much like geocities. Wandering through there is one of the most painful web experiences I can imagine. Despite that, though, if one gets a link to one of the rare good geo sites (however that is defined), one can often find others of the same ilk. The same is true of hypermart. Despite its attractive home page, hypermart isn't a destination in itself. But it's likely that somewhere in that sleazy mess of dreadful html that there are several individual stores that would be interesting even to me -- a committed non-shopper. If I saw a link to one, I'd go there. In that way, again, it's like a strip mall. Unlike a department store, downtown area, or major mall, strip malls aren't places that one is likely to go to just to wander about. But strip malls often include stores that offer better prices or better service than what one finds at the more expensive real estate. And by the way -- even though I don't use that site as a destination, I still own shares in GNET partly because they run that site. It seems like a good e-commerce play to me, and one that's only begun to show its value. (After all, landlords throughout the country have made fortunes on sleazy strip malls.)