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Here is my pick you asked for.....TOCK. As of right now I haven't got much info on it but have copied the following which I think makes good reading. I found this at Internet Stock News, which recently picked it as one of their picks. Their previous picks have all done well which included SNMM and IHWY. Hope you can add it to the index and it has a great run just like MCNS. Below is the article from Internet Stock News:
TOPCLiCK International, Inc. is a web-based media and content company that functions as a one-stop information portal to the Top Ten Internet Guides and to the Top Eight Web Sites by information subject. Providing links to top Internet websites from Yahoo!, Excite, Alta Vista and other prominent Internet portals, the company is able to provide a, easy to use, comprehensive source of information and content (a portal) for Internet users through their Topclick.com Internet site.
While numerous high-profile Internet portals such as Yahoo!, Lycos, Excite, and Infoseek scour the web or their own databases for information about a particular subject, there has yet to emerge a comprehensive Internet tool for searching the entire World Wide Web while still focusing on relevant information and eliminating redundancy. Newer Internet search engine companies such as Dogpile and Metacrawler have programmed their search algorithm to utilize multiple existing search engines. However, the information that results from the compilation of these numerous search engines leaves much to be desired, as the amount of relevant information that is retrieved from these comprehensive searches becomes largely diluted
by tangential and nonspecific links.
By uniquely and strategically compiling their own database of the most relevant links on the Internet as retreived by other prominent search engines and databases including Yahoo!, Excite,Lycos,Infoseek, GoTo.com, Go Network, Ask Jeeves, Dogpile, Northern Light, Looksmart, Snap!, Webcrawler, AOL, Netfind, HotBot, and Alta Vista, Topclick is able to provide its users with relevant, focused information and content from quality sources that currently accounts for over 95% of all search traffic on the Internet.
Organizing a database in a manner similar to David Filo and Jerry Yang did in the early stages of Yahoo!, Topclick's founders have integrated a user-friendly front-end system (graphic interface) as well as a top-notch back-end system (programming) on top of their comprehensive database to allow for easy navigation. Topclick has also vowed to avoid using banner advertising thus allowing users to quickly navigate to the top sites on the World Wide Web without distractions.
The benefits and potential value of Topclick are readily apparent and
easily appreciated, especially for novice Internet users. Their web search tool is extremely accurate, efficient, and user-friendly. The company believes that their web search technology could provide formidable competition with other comprehensive and exhaustive search engines such as Metacrawler and Dogpile. The company will generate revenues through sponsorship advertising, e-commerce links, and the sale of Internet traffic research.
Topclick's business model, in this day and age, reminds us most of Buy.com. If you haven't visited Buy.com (http://www.buy.com ), you should take a look at their website. Buy.com is a privately-held Internet company that sells many items below cost, generating revenues through sponsorships from e-tailers as well as advertisers. While not extremely scalable in terms of profit margins, Buy.com is able to provide Internet users with a one-stop source to buy items quickly and cheaply. Since this is a resource that, to this date, no other Internet company has been able to provide, they may be able to generate a large user base in a relatively short period of time.
As is the case with most web-based content and commerce companies, once they are able to generate a large user base, they can leverage those users into dollars such as Yahoo! does when they, effectively, sell their user-base books from Amazon.com, CD's from CDNow, Gifts & Gadgets from Sharperimage.com, etc. through advertising and commerce links on the Yahoo.com site pages. They then generate revenue commissions from these links.
While still in its early developmental stages, Topclick International has announced plans to scale its infrastructure to a team of 80 marketing, financial, and product development staff, including an office in Northern California. Metacrawler was once a scrappy upstart which used other databases and search engines to provide to users a comprehensive web search tool. Now, Metacrawler, with its sister sites in the Go2Net Network, is worth over $700 million. Topclick (OTC BB: TOCK) has a similar goal to Metacrawler, but plans to focus their site on the more discerning web users. For those interested in searching the web from Top down, check out topclick.com and make it your home page.
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-ISN
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