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To: Victor Lazlo who wrote (72569)	8/7/1999 7:29:00 PM
From: Bill Harmond	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

The Financial Times doesn't survey Web usage. I'm sure they used Media Metrix, which showed a fall-off in April, that was later desputed by their May data.

To: Victor Lazlo who wrote (72569)	8/7/1999 9:13:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

The April traffic thing was in an article in Financial Times. Yeah but they were posting the media metrix numbers. Media Metrix has a few flaws in their sampling methods which were disclosed (by yahoo mgmt) during the yahoo conference call. One is that MM doesn't track corporate intranet hits, probably because they are looking at unique users and the corporate intranet appears as one (just speculation on my part). Even more critical, they don't track international hits unless it comes through the US site. So japan.yahoo.com is not counted. Thats huge! And it actually helps the lesser developed sites such as go2net that don't have international presence since all international users hit the US gnet site. The point is MM has a little growing to do so you can't judge internet growth solely on their figures.