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To: sleuthmaven who wrote (37)	12/30/1998 9:28:00 AM
From: sleuthmaven	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 666

SLEU common stock float According to S&P it is at 2 Million Pulled this down from Standard & Poor's Corporate Description of ISleuth.Com Isleuth.com, Inc. * * * * * * CAPITALIZATION (Aug. 31 '98) * * * * * * * * LONG TERM DEBT- None. STOCK OUTSTANDING- Auth. Shs. Outstg. Shs. Pfd. $ 0.001 par...................10,000,000 6,000,000 Com. $ 0.001 par..... .............25,000,000 2,068,885 Privately held. ***************************************************************

To: sleuthmaven who wrote (37)	12/31/1998 12:45:00 AM
From: Jan Garrity Allen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 666

Got in today and excited to see many articles from AP, reuters etc about 99 being the year of internet mergers !! AP article predicted that mSFT may buy a portal,seek may acquire lycos,yahoo may be bought out by a major media company and INKTOMI was not mentioned but i wonder if they have a new search engine for ecommerce than what about acquiring their own portal?? Any thoughts???

To: sleuthmaven who wrote (37)	1/1/1999 3:41:00 AM
From: c-man	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 666

sleuth, I have been studying sleuth for only a few days; love their meta-search engine as a very convenient way to skip over visiting each and every engine for a max search ib min time. One problem that I still can't get over....if these meta-search engines lose their "access" to the core search engines (the "true portals" such as yahoo, Excite, Lycos, etc), they've lost most of their business plan. Why would "core" engines deny the metas access ? Because they would, rightfully so, see the metas as cannabilizing their visitors. Metas just feed you to the info...you don't have to set foot in Yahoo or Excite. In fact, intrinsically, the point of a meta is to save time and cover ground bykeeping a person at their site. Yahoo and others can't been too keen on that goal. This trade rag discusses a related issue (metas dbasing search engines without permission). internetwk.com So - what protects meta-engines right to dbase the core engine, and can the core engine BLOCK OUT metas that try to access ? I see inherent conflict over the consumers' browsing time which is what everyone wants and needs for the advertising revenue/income stream. c-man P.S. Other metas I've bookmarked - not sure how many, if any, are owned by publicly-held tradable stock companies. 1blink.com 2q.to copernic98.com cyber411.com dogpile.com fly-catcher.com freeality.com highway61.com mamma.com metacrawler.com searchspaniel.com surfy.com webtaxi.com