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To: MaryinRed who wrote (119)	2/4/1999 10:08:00 AM
From: MaryinRed	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 419

Value of "eyeballs" +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ____from Steve Harmon's newsletter __________ internetnews.com but in case you can't link...here is some of it. WEBDEX: Top 10 Web Sites Get Buy Eye Happy In the past 12 months the average value per top 10 Web site user soared 461% to today's $365 per pair of eyeballs. Yahoo has led the way by far with its current value per unique user north of $1200. With Yahoo's $5 billion bid for GeoCities (NASDAQ:GCTY) it bumped the GeoCitie's WEBDEX metric up 54% to $192 per user. Now here's the fun 'what if' part. What if GeoCities users start commanding Yahoo-like user valuations once the Yahooligans absorb the community site en toto? Here's one scenario: the one plus one equals three or four, depending on the caffeine quotient on Wall Street. See table at internetnews.com