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To: De Peepster who wrote (1885)	1/24/1999 9:04:00 PM
From: Mark Dawood	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5300

Barbara, In regards to the interview that I missed (re-call)and after hours of getting thru the right people, It did broadcast in channel 5 (KSL NEWS), UTAH BUSINESS. It was a re-play of the July 98 interview with Dan Lunt and John. So I guess nothing of importance. HTH, Mark

To: De Peepster who wrote (1885)	1/24/1999 9:13:00 PM
From: riposte	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 5300

SEARCHING FOR MORE THAN SEARCH FROM MSNBC... [TEXT DELETED] For the millions of people who regularly use the Internet, portal sites such as Yahoo, The Microsoft Network and Excite have become the starting points whenever they log onto the Web. What began as directories of Web sites broken down into various categories (Yahoo!, Lycos) or a comprehensive index of sites (Compaq's Alta Vista) have grown into Web audience-gathering powerhouses. “Over 90 percent of people online search for information,” says Bo Peabody, CEO of Tripod, a Web community service owned by Lycos. [TEXT DELETED] SEARCHING FOR MORE THAN SEARCH Yet as popular as it is, search is not enough to keep people coming back to one particular site, nor is it enough to keep people within a search directory's ad-supported pages for very long. “Search is a customer attraction vehicle, it's how you get people in the door, but they don't stick because of it,” says Abhi Gami, Internet analyst with William Blair & Co. “They stick because of e-mail, chat and bulletin boards.” [TEXT DELETED] “We're going to see a refinement and evolution of these sites. These portal sites won't continue for the next decade to be a catchall. Inevitably they're going to have to focus, stake a claim and say ‘we own this,' ” says Zona Research's Rappaport. [REMAINING TEXT DELETED] FULL TEXT @ msnbc.com