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To: AmericanVoter who wrote (31)	2/26/2000 8:27:00 AM
From: Glenn Petersen	Respond to of 110

ALTA plans a major European push: internetnews.com AltaVista Plans Major European Expansion February 25, 2000 By Beth Cox InternetNews.com Correspondent Business News Archives AltaVista this week said it plans to expand its European presence to include an additional 18 countries by the end of the year and hopes to be offering local content search sites to an estimated 136 million European Internet users by 2002. Following the successful launch of www.altavista.de in April of last year in Germany, a full-fledged European division was established in October. In the four months since, country search sites have been launched at an average rate of one a month -- www.altavista.se in October 1999, www.altavista.co.uk in December 1999, www.altavista.nl and www.altavista.fr in February 2000. The original AltaVista site is already well known across Europe, with 15 million of its 54 million users a month coming from European countries. By launching local country sites with quality local content, AltaVista said it aims to offer the most personalized service on the Web to both English and non-English language speakers." "The 90 percent of Europeans for whom English is not their first language can find today's Internet experience frustrating. With this move, AltaVista is making it fast and simple to find local-language search results wherever you live in Europe, and whatever your language," said Vesey Crichton, marketing and strategy director, AltaVista Europe. AltaVista is a majority-owned operating company of CMGI Inc. (CMGI).

To: AmericanVoter who wrote (31)	3/1/2000 7:50:00 AM
From: Glenn Petersen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110

LCOS to launch a free ISP: yahoo.cnet.com Lycos to launch free ISP By John Borland Staff Writer, CNET News.com February 28, 2000, 6:05 p.m. PT Lycos is expected to launch a free Internet access service tomorrow, joining a market already populated by several of its main Web portal rivals. The Waltham, Mass., company is tapping CMGI-owned 1stUp.com to run the service, alongside AltaVista and Excite@Home on the upstart's client list, according to people familiar with the company's plans. Lycos' move is in part a simple means of keeping up with the Yahoos, as several of its closest competitors have already attracted hundreds of thousands of users to their free Net access services. But the deal also underlines these services' new role as a critical piece of portals' business models, much as free email has now become commonplace on virtually every Web site with mass-market ambitions. Of the major Web-only portals, only Disney's Go Network is now left without some kind of access component. Yahoo joined with K-mart to create the Bluelight free ISP service last year. The Web sites are hoping they can forge the kind of tight relationship between ISPs and their customers that has led America Online to considerable success. AOL has consistently declined to offer its own free service in face of this new competition, however, or even drop its $21.95 a month service costs. Lycos is currently the No. 2 Web-only portal, trailing Yahoo by a considerable margin. Microsoft and America Online also draw more users than Lycos, but each of those also has a strong dial-up Net access division. The company has spent considerable time and money over the last year on acquisitions and marketing, trying to close Yahoo's lead. That piecework strategy was implemented after a planned merger with USA Networks fell though due to a lack of shareholder support. Lycos' move also adds a bit of momentum to the free ISP market, now sailing smoothly after a rocky start. By the middle of last month, more than 3 million users had signed up for NetZero, the leading consumer free ISP brand--though analysts say only about half of those are active users of the service. CMGI's 1stUp.com has about 2 million subscribers spread across its various Web clients. Earlier this month, the CMGI subsidiary announced a deal that will take free ISP service into the Latin American market as a joint venture with StarMedia Network and a group of venture capitalists. Lycos and 1stUp declined comment on the expected announcement.