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Microcap & Penny Stocks : Here's a New Approach -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SellShort who wrote (330)	3/28/2000 7:31:00 PM
From: bswmhf	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 654

Sell Short, This is not a new way for engines to run. It is how they have always run utilizing spiders. The competition for search engine placement has sifted out these new effective approaches for web design and maintinance. The entire ball game on the net revolves around who is found and who is not. The search engines have promoted themselves as facilitators to a users internet search but in fact are positioning themselves to be the destination site. The only companies really showing any bottom line are the businesses who claim to be able to facilitate the inclusion of business in thier economic model. They are selling companies websites that more than likely will never be found. The next obvious step is to create a scenario in which a B2B company sells positioning to a company that is languishing on the results pages. Proboost has positioned themselves nicely to exploit small business with their ad placement on the submission pages of the major search engine players yet still direct thier clients to fall into the same old pyramid style architecture that will be lost in relevance two years from today(sell before then). So who to invest in? There is a growing trend in the startup business modelling community to bring the bottom line to internet ventures. Ultimately when the tulip depression of Holland hits the web there will be a great hurdle for new companies to overcome in alleviating investors fears. In order to establish themselves in the obvious economic climate we are sowing they will have to demonstrate healthy profits for sustained periods of time to instill confidence. In later years it will become impossible to bring a web company to the board without these considerations. A good example is V.AIR. who is making advances to the nasdaq which ultimately will generate great increases in thier stock value. Reviewing the www.airbomb.com website I wonder why because it is obvious that the company will never really make a profit in the business model. Five years from today when we start recovering from the crash a company like V.AIR will never get a second glance from an investor. Profit, profit, profit, if it doesn't make a profit I don't want to know about it. I will be positioned for the long term Short Sell.