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Gold/Mining/Energy : Net Shepherd Inc. (WEB) on ASE -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Barry K who wrote (866)	3/1/2000 6:46:00 PM
From: Len Hynes	Respond to of 1252

Hi Barry; Great job in digging this out from the AskJeeves filing...very revealing, to say the least. I fully agree with your statement"let the competition begin".We should see some great price strides in the month's ahead for Net Shepherd. Keep up the good work! Len

To: Barry K who wrote (866)	3/1/2000 11:44:00 PM
From: Crazy Canuck	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1252

*>> Let the competition begin.<<* Great find there my friend! However, I want to state that for Answers.com to succeed, there really doesn't have to be a competition (therefore a winner). I know Ask Jeeves has referred to Answers.com as a potential competitor in their filing document. That said, remember what Don Sandford said in the Investors' Forum . . . "They may end up working with Ask Jeeves" (loose transcript from memory). If this were the case, then I could see infinite benefits for both companies. Answers.com gets access to the companies already in Ask Jeeve's stable, and Ask Jeeves gets access to Answers.com /NSI's technology. It could be a very good marriage. On the other hand . . . Answers.com could end up being the first real (and focused) competitor to arrive on the scenes to challenge AskJeeves. All they have to do is start to carve a piece of the large pie for themselves (from the large, mid sized, and smaller company list), and their low cost, highly scalable technology and Vanenburg's International reach would make them an immediate force to be reckoned with. Throw in any assistance (complimentary contracts) that they may have with their sister companies - KPulse.com, and ClickChoice.com and Answers.com will really be smoking. I think that the American and European market will love what they have to offer, and they will want a piece of it. Here is the Answers.com website link. It is definitely worth a look. answers.com By the way, I have about 40 companies that I watch (in one of my portfolio lists). Good old V.WEB had the greatest percentage increase of all of them today- 22.6%! To top it off, it was on good volume as well. Yes, that was nice, real nice to see. Boy, what a difference a day can make! I also think that there will much more where that came from over the coming weeks and months. How about for now anyway, let's say . . . "Let the fun begin"! Crazy Canuck