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To: HiSpeed who wrote (15180)	11/12/1998 10:03:00 PM
From: Webfoot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27307

Hi Speed: C'mon, you're smarter than that. As Yahoo moves from the ridiculous to beyond ridiculous, the pros will take their plentiful profits. They may cycle in and out for a while, but ultimately, there will be new brands to attract attention, better ideas and ways to get to net content than a bunch of cluttered portal site pages that tax one's patience when taking 4-6 page loads to get where you want to go. For the moment, the market turns over 20-25% of Yahoo's float every day. When the feeding frenzy slows, so will the churn and so will the squeezes. Also, Yahoo will loose its uniquiness as a profitable net company as more outfits begin to report profits...at the demand of investors. (Amazon for instance could easily be profitable if they weren't spending $2-4 million / month in marketing ... but if you were Bezos, and the market was rewarding you for loosing money (as it is), why on earth would you WANT to report a profit? Then you just have to KEEP reporting a profit... larger each time ... to keep investors at bay.) Was it Mae West or Marilyn Monroe that said "it's all in the timing"?