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To: cm who wrote (6290)	5/30/1998 12:01:00 PM
From: webinfopro.com	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9343

Keep the thoughts coming cm To put your thoughts in another way -- saying search engines are a commodity on the web is like saying VCRs are a commodity. Tech improvement, brand names, ease of use, will still sell a lot of machines and make a profit. Intel owns a "commodity" machine -- does that make intel a poor choice (maybe when it promises what it won't deliver". Larry your points (as on cnkt board are interesting). I don't have specific answers, but I think the quicky algoirithms will have a share of the market -- but as you point out, the market is growing, with potential limited only by the size, and imagination, of our species. There are loads of soda brands, newspapers, and newspaper chains, but there are only a couple of cokes, pepsis, NYT, Washington Posts, Economists, etc. It gets harder every day for someone else to do a Murdock or Turner on the top brands -- It will happen, but even those two did not displace their rivals -- only joined them. Lastly, Newspapers are commodities, but when USA Today came along with a well-thought out business model and some new technology (regarding color) it was successful --- So the game goes to the Best Management and providing what people (many different groups of) want.

To: cm who wrote (6290)	5/30/1998 8:22:00 PM
From: Jorge	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9343

cm...Good Afternoon (I guess it could be evening if you are on the East Coast)...The market this week acted like I felt - I had a nasty case of the flu last couple days.... Couple of things: I've been reading certain posters comments on this thread about when is a good time to cover, so I think I will throw in my recommendations--I'll be 'covering' somewhere between 60 - 100, although I'm still undecided if I want to do that before or after a split. On another note, what exactly (or closely would be good enough) is "distributed search"? Regards, George