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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (103)	6/3/1998 9:16:00 AM
From: Candle stick	Respond to of 182

YET ANOTHER FORBES ARTICLE ...page 296 June 15th issue...entitled "Santayana got it wrong", by Martin Sosnoff. An excerpt: " Greenspan is worried about the inflationary implications of the wealth effect, but the country doesn't want to hear it. How else can you explain internet stocks? The combined value of America Online, Yahoo!,Excite and Amazon.com puts them near the top 50 market capitalizations in the S&P. For these stocks there are no meaningful earnings visible until the millenium, if then, but that bothers only those of us who have been here before." Good reading.....;^)

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (103)	6/3/1998 8:24:00 PM
From: Candle stick	Respond to of 182

Comparison Shopping On The Net SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, U.S.A., 1998 JUN 3 (Newsbytes) -- By Bob Woods, Newsbytes. At first, real-world retailers brought the experience of shopping at malls or stores onto the Internet. Now, comparison shopping is next for cyberspace, via the new WebMarket service from go2net Inc. [NASDAQ:GNET]. Web shoppers can get pricing on a variety of products and services from many Web sites with WebMarket, officials said, and they can compare prices from several Web merchants from one source. WebMarket's search capabilities cut across a fairly wide swath of merchant categories on the Web: apparel, books/stationery, computer hardware/software, consumer electronics, department stores, games/toys, general merchandise, music, movie/video and outdoor gear. Within each category, the stores represented seemed to be fairly complete. In books/stationery, many smaller stores were represented, as well as the "big 3" in bookselling: Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and Borders. Results from WebMarket can be searched by price, merchant, brand, availability, shipping parameters and other criteria. Each result has a link to the corresponding merchant Web site, so the user can immediately purchase the desired item at the best price. The actual purchases are made at merchants' Web sites. Go2net quoted a Jupiter/NFO Interactive survey of online consumers that waid while 77 percent of buyers are going online with a specific purchase in mind, 79 percent of those shoppers visit several sites before making a purchase. Jupiter believes that automated bots for comparison shopping will be the key to attracting the majority of today's online shoppers, go2net said. WebMarket will launch with a two month, $100,000 online ad campaign that will run on major search engines and directories as well as on other go2net sites, including MetaCrawler. WebMarket also BizRate reports and ratings on merchants at the WebMarket site. BizRate independently evaluates Web merchants. Go2net is joining with Junglee Corp. in its new venture. Junglee develops comparison shopping comparison technology and personnel recruitment systems for the World Wide Web. Go2net officials were not immediately available for comment. WebMarket is at webmarket.com , while go2net's main Web site is at go2net.com . Other go2net sites include MetaCrawler at metacrawler.com , PlaySite at playsite.com , and StockSite at stocksite.com . Go2net is also acquiring Silicon Investor, at techstocks.com , a Web-based financial discussion site. Reported By Newsbytes News Network: newsbytes.com . -0- (19980603/Press Contacts: Jennifer McLean, Insync Communications, 503- 412-3642; Kirby Winfield, go2net, Inc., 206-447-1595 /WIRES ONLINE, BUSINESS/)