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Technology Stocks : InfoSpace (INSP): Where GNET went! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Randomm who wrote (5834)	5/19/1999 8:46:00 PM
From: WallStreetTips	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28311

GNET >>> EVERYONE INCLUDING MANAGEMENT PLEASE READ THIS: I have personally recommended Metacrawler Search Engine to atleast 200 people so far if not more. I show them what it could do for them and well it searches the web. I am sure the word spreads out and that 200 turns into 2000 in few months and keeps multiplying gradually. I notice that 95% plus of those people never ever heard of Metacrawler, 50% never heard of Go2Net. As such I agree GNET has to make the name more popular somehow. May be they should do something like goto.com does. Many sites/portals I go to see use goto.com search box which is provided free. I think something like that could definitely increase popularity and increase traffic heavily. I personally believe that metacrawler is the best search engine in the market. Also GNET management has to do something to increase traffic on their other low traffic sites like Webmarket, Stocksite etc. They need to advertise more about 100Hot, Comeout with some attractive signup deals for Silicon Investor, Create more publicity of their Playsite and make Go2Net portal page more useful so that people start using it for all their needs. May be GNET should acquire a larger company with super heavy traffic which could bring them under first 10 rank of most visited websites company. GNET Needs to go out to World Internet Expo fairs and others such expos to increase its popularity. GNET has superb web products it is just that most people know or are used to Yahoo. Most people on the WallStreet or most investors trading Internet stocks know about GNET but those make less than 10% of total population/web surfers in my opinion. GNET has to do something about increasing coverage from big boys ( I mean companies like Goldman, Hambrecht & Quist, Merrly Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Alex Brown, Lehman Brothers etc.). Management should go out talk and convince Investment Bankers like I mentioned to inititate covergae of stocks. Look at the huge number of big names that follow Yahoo or Excite or Lycos. GNET has done absolutely nothing in this front. Yes agreed that technically GNET is the best but you need support from such big name wallstreet firms. I agree sometimes that could be bad as their rating changes kill the stock price. We may see some institutional buying and mutual fund buying after such coverage. GNET management has done WONDERFUL job so far in all fronts but lately I am not happy with its stock performance. Partially the drop is because when they made Paul Allen announcement they should have looked at the conditions and should have negotiated a better deal which was kind of done deal and not lingering in air kind of issue. I feel proud to be holding GNET and am absolutely positive that the stock will do very well its just matter of time. Once the clouds of uncertainty of Vulcan Ventures/Paul Allen deal and Split disappears we will see GNET clearly rising high in the sky. Above mentioned are just few of my suggestions and I am sure management is smart and does everything possibly they could to grow the business. Little bit of more focus on stock price issue will definitely put a big smile on your loyal investors and web users. Just my views.