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To: re3 who wrote (80660)10/14/1999 6:17:00 PM
From: Eric Wells  Respond to of 164684
 
ike - I admit to having bought YHOO before - but recently it has been only to cover short positions. I can see how a purchase of YHOO could be used to balance out a portfolio.

By the way - did you see this news on a particular Canadian software company:

dailynews.yahoo.com

-Eric



To: re3 who wrote (80660)10/14/1999 6:20:00 PM
From: H James Morris  Respond to of 164684
 
>>oil, <<
Ike oil?? I have Xoi call contracts expiring next year.
Why? Forrester Research says that about the same time that Bezo goes busted Oil will be at a much higher price.
>>
Weekly Internet Ratings From Nielsen//NetRatings; Data for Monday, October 4 through Sunday, October 10, 1999; Oprah.com Talks to 86.6% Female Audience

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 14, 1999--The following Internet
audience and advertising information is from Nielsen//NetRatings, the
Internet measurement service from Nielsen Media Research (NYSE: NMR)
and NetRatings, Inc. The information includes: Top 25 Web Properties,
Top 10 Internet Advertisers, Top 10 Ad Banners and Average Internet
Usage statistics for the week ending October 10, 1999.

Noteworthy this week:

- The top site this week for females was Oprah.com. Of those Web

surfers visiting the site, 86.6% of them were female. For the

third week in a row, the top site for males was Nettaxi.com, an

online community. Men accounted for 95.9% of those visiting the

site.

-- No. 1 clicked-on ad banner with a 17.3% click rate was eCost's ad

featuring a product promotion. eCost, a subsidiary of Creative

Computers (NASDAQ:MALL), is an online provider of computer

hardware, software, peripherals and other consumer products.

Nielsen//NetRatings: Top 25 Web Sites by Property

October 4-10, 1999

Ranking of the Most Visited Web Properties

Property (Ticker Symbol) Unique Audience (000) Time Per Person

(hrs:min:sec)

1. AOL Websites (NYSE:AOL) 20,605 0:10:40

2. Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) 18,722 0:26:07

3. MSN (NASDAQ:MSFT) 12,283 0:19:40

4. Lycos Network (NASDAQ:LCOS) 9,611 0:08:10

5. GO Network (NASDAQ:SEEK) 7,070 0:13:08

6. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) 5,426 0:07:06

7. Excite@Home (NASDAQ:ATHM) 5,130 0:14:37

8. Time Warner (NYSE:TWX) 4,085 0:08:57

9. AltaVista (NASDAQ:CMGI) 3,643 0:05:44

10. eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) 3,427 0:54:00

11. Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) 3,144 0:07:25

12. Blue Mt. Arts 2,606 0:10:10

13. Snap 2,184 0:07:27

14. Go2net Network (NASDAQ:GNET) 2,167 0:07:31

15. LookSmart (NASDAQ:LOOK) 2,115 0:05:15

16. Xoom (NASDAQ:XMCM) 2,105 0:07:20

17. CNET (NASDAQ:CNET) 2,005 0:06:21

18. ZDNet (NYSE:ZD) 1,917 0:08:33

19. About.com (NASDAQ:BOUT) 1,661 0:04:34

20. CBS Sportsline (NASDAQ:SPLN) 1,581 0:12:02

21. AT&T (NYSE:T) 1,568 0:08:38

22. Real Networks (NASDAQ:RNWK) 1,555 0:03:53

23. CNN (NYSE:TWX) 1,467 0:11:06

24. InfoSpace (NASDAQ:INSP) 1,462 0:04:31

25. GoTo.com (NASDAQ:GOTO) 1,444 0:02:09

Example: The data indicate that approximately 1.4 million home

Internet users visited at least one of the GoTo.com-owned sites during

the week, and each person spent, on average, a total of two minutes

and nine seconds at one or more of their sites.

Notes: Rankings are based on audience measurement of people who

have access to the Internet from home. A property is defined as a

consolidation of multiple domains and URLs owned by a single entity.

Reach is a measure of the unduplicated audience that visits a

property. The data are expressed as the percent of the total universe

of Internet users who logged onto the Internet at least once during

the reporting period.

Nielsen//NetRatings: Top Ten Advertisers

October 4-10, 1999<<