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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (42025)	1/4/1999 12:48:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 132070

OK, fair enough. As you know, I am more like your wife, shopping is a social event. I have yet to buy anything on the net except for stocks, subscriptions to on-line publications, and software that I downloaded.

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (42025)	1/4/1999 12:52:00 PM
From: HB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Skeets, not that I'm defending Yahoo etc.. valuations, but part of what good internet companies supposedly do (Yahoo, go2net (check their Metacrawler), other search engines, maybe zdnet, or some of the shopbots) is find ways to organize that information and make it more accessible to you.. hope is that you "trust" their links, picks, etc.... and that is an intangible asset for them. I don't spend enough time surfing to have a very developed sense of which sites add this value, etc... but over time some of them will evolve into known icons of our commercial culture, just like you know the difference between Sears, K-mart, Wal-mart, and Macy's or Lord & Taylor or whatever your regional chain is... Your point (need for info to be organized, filtered) may strengthen the case for internut valuations... Cheers, HB