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To: Platter who wrote (16149)	12/21/1998 5:56:00 PM
From: Tom R.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27307

YAHOO is an amazing stock I must admit, but may I suggest everyone look into what a lot of people are saying may be the NEXT Yahoo.. and that is WordCruncher Internet Technologies, Inc. (WCTI). They are coming out with a state of the art multilingual search engine which will be released Feb. 1999. The search engine is very unique in that it provides search results as "hits in context", meaning that the actual site where your search query result appears is sent back to the WordCruncher engine! For example, if you were to do a search on "stocks", it would first give you a table of contents of which sites matched and the number of hits where your keyword appeared. Then when you click on a result, the places where that keyword appears at that particular website appears "in-context" right there on the WordCruncher website!! THe keyword is surrounded by a paragraph or so of the actual text.. So you no longer have to go jumping from site to site to see if they have what you're looking for. It comes to you. Companies who advertise via banner ads wil love this because their banner will get more face time since users will not be jumping back and forth between sites. Their search technology is truly unique and has already been patented. It has already been proven at the University level around the U.S. and will be hitting the commercial market come Feb. 1999.. This is truly a company with AMAZING potential, IMHO. They have a demo of their engine at wordcruncher.com. Check them out and tell me what you think.. Pennystockpicks.com picked them as their "stock of the year" for 1999! Tom

To: Platter who wrote (16149)	12/21/1998 8:22:00 PM
From: barry s	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 27307

Good post! I have to admit that I am amazed and completely did not anticipate what happened today. I thought that Yahoo had peaked at 227 and was on its way down (slowly but surely). Quite obviously this is not what is happening. Yahoo is still on its way up. Where and when it will end-- who knows, but it surely will end. My biggest concern is that when the bubble bursts and possibly $100 billion of net worth is lost (on the internet stocks), what will happen to all of the other legitimate stocks as they are sold to meet margin calls on the internet stocks. While I had hoped that we could avoid a full market crash, I now believe that the bursting of the internet stocks will likely be the trigger for a full blown market crash. Comments please!