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To: chirodoc who wrote (2477)	11/6/1997 11:21:00 AM
From: Bill Harmond	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27307

I think push is ahead of itself, somewhat over-rated, because it is such a bandwidth hog. It's cool technology, though, and certainly has it's uses. As far as Yahoo goes, I don't think it's an issue. BTW, Pointcast carries advertising, so that's one more player validating Internet advertising.

To: chirodoc who wrote (2477)	11/6/1997 2:24:00 PM
From: Karl Knoernschild	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 27307

>> spoke with an executive at cisco yesterday. he said that "push" technology may eventually make search engines obsolete. that a user will recieve information without need for search engine--the user's profile will push the information at them instantly. << I personally don't believe that push technology will make search engines obsolete, because they serve different purposes. Certainly a matured push technology model will take over some of the tasks that are delegated to search engines today, but there's some things push will never be able to do. In any case, Yahoo is not a search engine, it is an index. There is a big difference - it's much harder to invent a good search engine than to build an index (back to the low-barriers-to-entry issue).