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To: RagnBull who wrote (10077)	4/15/1998 5:27:00 PM
From: Dave Kosmayer	Respond to of 27307

Where is YHOO gonna split, and I heard someone say there not gonna split. I think we'll see a split annoucement in the mid 120's if we get there and we could do exactly what AOL did. Split at 130 then go to 155. Don't fight the trend, people are tripping over each other to get into internet stocks. Dave/

To: RagnBull who wrote (10077)	4/15/1998 5:29:00 PM
From: Dave Kosmayer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27307

Here son take my life savings and put it in anything that says INTERNET!!! Kinda funny but making me big money.

To: RagnBull who wrote (10077)	4/15/1998 5:39:00 PM
From: Robert Sievers	Respond to of 27307

The reason that Spyglass sold its browser technology to Microsoft for "next to nothing" was because Netscape had taken over the browser market by giving away the Netscape Explorer. No. The reason is because either Microsoft was going to build a browser and crush Spyglass in 6 months, or Microsoft was going to buy a browser from Spyglass and then crush Spyglass in 3 months. William, I respect your opinion, and you have been right. You have made a ton of money, and I lost all mine. Having said that, I just installed IE4.0 today. Guess what? I got taken to a cute little customized start page with stock quotes, whether, news, sports, and more. I customized it the way I wanted because it was right there in front of me Why should I go find my.yahoo.com or my.excite.com when a customized page format is there on browser launch? If I want great stock quotes, I can go to my broker. If I want more weather info, I can go to the weatherchannel? All I would need yahoo for is the directory search. The only thing YHOO has going for it is the stupidity of advertisers. Everybody decided that had to be on the internet, so some marketing guy for Pringles put a potato chip ad on YHOO. They figured they could drop $5M and see how it went. They don't understand hits, impression, or unique users. They are marketing guys. Picure this. I have a web site at bridgebooks.com. I don't sell anything, but I am in the process of linking to a bridge bookseller to obtain a portion of the royalties from referred customers. Tell me what is more likely; 1. That someone searches for a site like mine, and clicks on ad before coming to my site. 2. Someone comes to my site, gets information, then chooses to buy. Businesses will figure it out. The money will come from SALES, and it will be from FOCUSED SALES. All of the $95M worthless page views will be snagged by MSFT and the e-commerce money will be split 10,000 ways by people like me and 9,999 other sites like the Natelie Merchant Fan club page with a link to CD now, cookie already supplied.