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To: Elwood P. Dowd who wrote (34701)	10/13/1998 6:33:00 PM
From: Steven N	Respond to of 97611

Quote.com shows the last trade of 145,000 shares at 5:01.Up 1/4 to 24 3/4.

To: Elwood P. Dowd who wrote (34701)	10/13/1998 7:52:00 PM
From: Trader J	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

Does CPQ release before the bell? Jeff

To: Elwood P. Dowd who wrote (34701)	10/13/1998 8:25:00 PM
From: Richie	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

El.... Check some of these prices on the afterhours site... sure wish they were true! dailystocks.com RichieH

To: Elwood P. Dowd who wrote (34701)	10/13/1998 11:23:00 PM
From: John Koligman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

CPQ updates AltaVista and is looking for more strategic deals. Good luck to all on Wednesday... John October 13, 1998 Compaq Adds Features to Alta Vista In Effort to Boost Its Online Profile By a WALL STREET JOURNAL Staff Reporter HOUSTON -- Compaq Computer Corp. revised its Alta Vista Internet search engine with a simplified inquiry process and other features and said it is seeking more deals to lift Alta Vista's Internet presence. The changes are the first major improvements to the Alta Vista search engine since the computer maker inherited it as part of its $9.1 billion purchase of Digital Equipment Corp. in June. Shortly after the purchase, some analysts questioned Compaq's interest in the search-engine business, but executives said they were committed to it. Rod Schrock, senior vice president of Compaq's consumer business, said the company's quarterly investment in Alta Vista reached into the tens of millions of dollars. "We want to evolve Alta Vista from a pre-eminent online search engine to a pre-eminent online destination," he said. Among the improvements is a so-called natural-language inquiry process, developed with Ask Jeeves Inc., a Berkeley, Calif., software developer, that allows a person to type a question instead of a keyword to locate information on the Web. Compaq also added a search process that invokes software from Spyglass Inc.'s SurfWatch Software unit to prevent children from accessing material that parents might find objectionable. Mr. Schrock said Compaq is shopping for other strategic partnerships. Return to top of page