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

To: starpopper who wrote (13023)	10/19/1999 9:25:00 PM
From: playavermont	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28311

The following is a quote from a Business Week article from September of 1997... <Why is advertising on the Net starting to click? For starters, the sheer number of Netizens prowling the Web, some 24 million today, is becoming too large for companies to ignore. Forrester Research Inc. expects that number to double to 52 million by 2000, putting the Web on a fast track to coveted mass-media status> Correct me if I am wrong but I believe this quote from 2 years ago underestimated the growth of netizens by about 12-15 Million. I believe the present total stands around 66 Million people. Wow...and I thought these projections we keep hearing are a little high when in fact they may be a little conservative... To be continued...