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To: RikRichter who wrote (319)	2/12/1999 4:12:00 PM
From: HavanaHoney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 666

Elliot: WKWG and WCTI As I mentioned to you in a prior post, I took a look at WKWG and WCTI. If this is SLEU's competition for capital, maybe they have a chance after all. But that doesn't mean I am sold....yet. WKWG (Welcometosearch.com) Not much to evaluate. Nothing to see yet. I question the premise of focusing on local/regional content. As several posters on the WCTI thread commented, this is where local newspaper web sites have the comparative advantage. Personally, that is what I use to find local content. It is also not a unique concept as the company would have you believe. For example: Yahoo Local: dir.yahoo.com There are also lots of business directories that are searchable by city and state like GTE's SuperPages: superpages.com WKWG appears to have major working capital problem as well. Back around October, they raised $600,000. With 23 employees, and no revenues in site (pun intentional), they will burn through that cash very quickly. Lots of delays in getting the web site up and also lots of negative posts on SI from Janice Shell, the Manuel Asensio of the Internet. I did find the mock-up "future headlines" on Welcometo.com very amusing, though. welcometosearch.com. Hard to believe this stock has a market cap of $150 million. WCTI (WordCruncher) I took a look at WordCruncher. They aren't providing a lot of details about their technology. I am sure experts in the business have made in-depth assessments of the technology and have opined one way or the other, but I haven't found anything on the web so far, just hype and PR releases. Their information is so sketchy, I have to speculate on exactly what they are doing, by here is my cursory review. They appear to be proposing a search engine that indexes a site (or document?) and creates a frame-based, HTML compliant index of that site. The company refers to a "setup" requirement for web sites that are to be indexed. I don't think it would be practical to spider and display such detailed indexes as shown on their demo in real time. Some editing of the index would probably be required, as well, which I assume would be the responsibility of the individual indexed site. I can only speculate, but I suspect that the individual web site index is created by the web site owner with spider software that WordCruncher would provide. Then the web site would probably edit the index and submit it to the main search engine for hosting and inclusion in a mega directory. If this is the case, it implies that every time the individual web site is modified, a new index would need to be created and submitted to the main search engine. Good luck! Most individual web sites, IMHO, won't go through that kind of effort to be listed on an obscure search engine. If Altavista or Yahoo were offering the technology, it might be different. Also, there are a host of companies offering software for creating HTML indexes and site maps like I described above. What's to keep these companies from collecting and hosting the indexes generated by their software on to a central server? See: winfiles.com winfiles.com winfiles.com If I've got it wrong and someone knows more about what these guys are actually proposing, I would be grateful to hear from you. A half billion in market cap? Amazing.. Elliot, please let me know of any other search engine opportunities I should look at. So far, I haven't found the new search engine I want to invest in yet. Thanks. HH