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To: CocoBob who wrote (2879)	11/16/1999 5:44:00 PM
From: claud_c	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3243

Competition....you better believe and... straight from Silicon Valley and this one will be hard. Hi Robert, I tried AltaVista, here are my observations: -The setup is as easy as HomeFreeWeb. -You can see the phone number that it will dial and it was a local phone number (this I like). -The Ad banner is empty (You just see an empty rectangle), this is anoying, they can put something more entertaining, like HomeFreeWeb does. -The Ad banner disappear as soon as you disconnect and it should be like that (HomeFreeWEB does not...I have to reboot). -HomeFReeWeb does resize automatically my Web Browser and place the Ad banner nicely right on top of my Browser. AltaVista does not at all and its Ad banner is not well centered and is right over my Netscape Bookmarks, very bad. I had to move the banner myself. Conclusion: While AltaVista is overall better than HomeFreeWeb in term of reliability. It is still a not finished product (that banner). However, my big concern there is that AltaVista has the enormous staff power (brain) to solve all these little problems very quickly, also CMGI have very deep pockets and therefore can afford loosing money for a while and American investors will accept that. Look at these two PR: biz.yahoo.com This one stated that service in Canada would start on December 15th. biz.yahoo.com While this one said that the service was available yesterday. Well, as you saw, I tried AltaVista and it is available now, so the second PR is the right one for Canada. Now this is clear. We have serious competitions. I told you, I told you. Wait until the Yankees are all around us...and they are now in 85% of Canada. I don't consider that as a good news for us CY shareholders, may be it will push CY to go faster, but they still need more money to do so, Paul cannot ignore AltaVista at all. Above all, I still consider 3WEB as a superior product, but so often in business, it is not really quality that count, it is a question of getting the market and fast, then put quality. I still don't understand why CY took so long for TO and AltaVista can do it in a snap all across Canada. Well...sometime money help. A not so happy shareholder. JMHO, Best Regards, claud_c

To: CocoBob who wrote (2879)	11/16/1999 10:05:00 PM
From: LABMAN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3243

9:56 pm Eastern Time Nielsen survey shows October Web traffic rebound By Monica Summers NEW YORK, Nov 16 (Reuters) - The average amount of time U.S. Internet users spent on major Web sites rose 9.3 percent to more than eight hours in October from September, a study said Tuesday, in a sign that Internet use was rebounding from seasonal softness during the summer and early fall months. Nielsen/NetRatings, an Internet measurement service from Nielsen Media Research Inc. (NYSE:NMR - news) and NetRatings Inc., said its monthly study of the top 25 Web sites showed a recovery in visitor traffic after a downtick between August and September. Christmas came early for online retailers, as the top three toy sites enjoyed a more than 100 percent jump in visitors in October, the survey found. Traffic to KBKids.com, the online arm of Consolidated Stores Corp. (NYSE:CNS - news) jumped 246 percent, the Toys R Us Inc. (NYSE:TOY - news) Web site (http://www.toysrus.com) increased 121 percent, and the number of users to eToys Inc. (NasdaqNM:ETYS - news) rose 110 percent. Recently, industry analysts had voiced their concern that signs of a decrease in Web usage could signal slowing U.S. growth in the Internet economy, although most agree that such data may not be comprehensive enough to see the full picture. America Online Inc.'s (NYSE:AOL - news) network of Web sites held on to its No. 1 spot among most visited Web sites for October with more than 40 million visitors, up more than 3 million from September. Both Yahoo! Inc. (NasdaqNM:YHOO - news), Microsoft Corp.'s (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) MSN, and Lycos Inc. (NasdaqNM:LCOS - news) saw proportional gains in October over September, hanging on to their respective rankings as the No. 2, 3 and 4 most-visited Internet networks. Several Web networks saw more considerable increases in October traffic, including Web gateway service Xoom.com Inc. (NasdaqNM:XMCM - news) with a 30 percent jump in traffic. Xoom is in the process of being merged into the Internet network of media company NBC, a unit of General Electric Co. (NYSE:GE - news). Other rapid gainers included Time Warner Inc.'s (NYSE:TWX - news) network, which posted a 24 percent monthly jump, and online greeting card service Blue Mountain Arts, also up 24 percent. Nielsen/NetRatings said overall usage in October increased 9.3 percent from September, when surfers were online for about 7 hours and 31 minutes. In August, the average person spent about 7 hours and 49 minutes online, it said. The market research venture also said the number of U.S. households who went online in October jumped to 67.8 million from 65 million. The study estimated that the size of the Internet universe, or people who have Web access but don't necessarily go online, jumped to 113 million over 110 million previously. The study also found that men continue to have a lead over women in Web usage, with men spending an hour-and-a-half longer online than women do each month. More Quotes and News: NYSE:NMR - news America Online Inc (NYSE:AOL - news) Consolidated Stores Corp (NYSE:CNS - news) eToys Inc (NasdaqNM:ETYS - news) General Electric Co (NYSE:GE - news) Lycos Inc (NasdaqNM:LCOS - news) Microsoft Corp (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) Time Warner Inc (NYSE:TWX - news) Toys R Us Inc (NYSE:TOY - news) XOOM.com Inc (NasdaqNM:XMCM - news) Yahoo Inc (NasdaqNM:YHOO - news) Related News Categories: US Market News