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To: T-Lo Greens who wrote (140)	1/15/1999 6:24:00 PM
From: Hamid MArandi	Respond to of 2220

No it is real. Off course it is. why not!

To: T-Lo Greens who wrote (140)	1/15/1999 9:47:00 PM
From: CoffeePot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2220

if it is we're in the early stages:)

To: T-Lo Greens who wrote (140)	1/15/1999 11:32:00 PM
From: StockMiser	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2220

Of course it is...LOL I had a lot of fun trading IMON today...but I'm not so sure about this new Webzinger product. Check out the website for yourself...not exactly impressive. Then download webzinger and run it. No offense to longs...but it looks like something a college kid put together. It feels like visual basic...very very slow and clunky. But thats ok, maybe it's a "beta" version. So I left to to collect information...and it ran and ran and ran. The resulting "slideshow" was...well...a total waste of time. Their strategy of collecting "snapshots" of the sites seemed really cool, but having to flip through them one at a time is very tedious. But thats really irrelevant since every test I ran came up with 95% useless pictures that told me nothing about the site. In most cases it grabbed the top banner or some other useless graphic. I honestly don't see the point of it at all. Who on earth would use this? If this product were free, I think they'd have trouble giving it away, much less sell it. I'd be very curious how many people have even downloaded the 30 day eval. Webferret (www.ferretsoft.com) is mucho better...mucho faster...and it's freeware (unless you want to kill the ads, which don't seem to slow it down). Just for the hell of it, I ran them both on the same subject...something easy...."Monica Lewinksy". I ran them both for 15 minutes. (I adjusted Webferret to limit itself to 500 sites per search engine...normally, you wouldn't run webferret for more than 5 or 10 mins...): Webferret found 1835 sites, and displayed them in an orderly fashion so I could get about 35 per screen that included the name of the site, the location, and the source it used to search. Move your cursor over the name and you get a an instantaneous pop-up description of the site (about a paragraph or 2). You also have multiple sort options. Webzinger found 18 sites, of which half were repeating pictures, and only 2 pictures made any sense; none were particularly helpful. The descriptions were useless as well. And I had to look at each one...one at a time. No way see a list of sites, much less sort them. It doesn't even tell you how many sites it found (no stats at all available from the "player"). Now I realize both products are different, so I ran them again, this time at "default" configurations. For Webferret, that means a total limit of 500 sites - which it found, described, and indexed in 2 mins 48 secs. For Webzinger, that means 1 hour 30 mins. In that timeframe it found 31 sites...1/2 duplicates. A couple of the pics were useful. Okay...what am I missing here?