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To: Gary Walker who wrote (26899)	11/18/1998 11:54:00 PM
From: Bill Harmond	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

>>Houdini lives.... OK. Thursday, November 19, 1998, 10:18:34 AM EST.

To: Gary Walker who wrote (26899)	11/19/1998 1:33:00 AM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Respond to of 164684

Our company had a presentation today from a fairly experienced internet company named citysearch.com. They have citysearch San Diego, citysearch Portland, etc. They have recently been bought out by Ticketmaster, which has been bought out by some big media company, don't remember the name. Anyway, we are thinking of hiring them to maintain our company website, plus list us in their citysearch.com "city guide" for our area, for a reasonable monthly fee. I asked the guy if they submit our site to all the search engines. He said yes, and listed off Excite, Hotbot, AltaVista, Webcrawler, InfoSeek. I asked what about Yahoo. He said that they don't submit pages to Yahoo, because for one it takes Yahoo staff six months to get to reviewing your site submission. This because Yahoo isn't a pure search engine, but more of a reviewed site guide, with sites reviewed by Yahoo. Now I have known all along how Yahoo worked, but I didn't know they had a six-month backlog. They must be losing tons of business simply because people turn to other avenues, ala the tidal wave of competition that is washing up on the shores of internet mania.