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To: Paul Merriwether who wrote (19749)	2/5/1999 6:25:00 PM
From: fut_trade	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27307

>expected growth rate Yahoo! used to be my primary source of information for quotes. These days free real times quotes from alternative sources are abundant. I have never used Yahoo!'s search engine -- when I search the web I prefer to search all information. Thus I tend to use altavista.com dogpile.com I do have Yahoo! Finance for my start-up page and refresh it from time to time, but very rarely click on a banner ad. In fact, I use Yahoo! less now than 1 year ago. Geocities has always been painfully slow to download information. My use of geocities has come to a grinding halt, except for the weekly updates of the Senna Matsuda tribute web page. The Yahoo! business model may be approaching an inflection point soon -- and seems to have already anticipated perfection. Even the split after today only lifted YHOO a small percentage. A year ago this type of event would have had a much stronger effect on the stock. I don't think Yahoo!'s earnings growth rate is as assured as Microsoft's. However, with such a high P/E, they could generate more cash via the classic route: Softbank sells some stock to the public..Yahoo! prints some more shares and sells them to Softbank..the book value of Yahoo! goes up.