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To: kendall harmon who wrote (14590)5/20/1999 8:32:00 AM
From: AlienTech  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 43080
 
>>A sharp member of the Market Gems thread found that it had been upgraded by a broker I had not heard of:<<

You mean this?

techstocks.com

But to top it off.. A company with 60 Million eye balls, Which is almost twice that of AOL has to be worth a lot more than 2 Billion! Even if they are loosing a ton of money, Which is not the case. The right marketing and the right people can make a killing. The right products can use those 60 million eye balls to some good use. Actually NETA products are known to more people than AOL or YHOO. (Not as NETA, But as McAfee, Dr.Solomon, The scratch and sniff's, the dogs, pretty darn good way to get around clinton's gore etc.



To: kendall harmon who wrote (14590)5/20/1999 10:58:00 PM
From: AlienTech  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 43080
 
Time to short EBAY? Eyeballs drooping..

Portals Multiply, Get Slimmer Slice Of Pie-Analyst
NEW YORK (Reuters) - While the number of Web media networks and Internet gateways are increasing, visitor numbers are shrinking as the sites divide up the same audience between more players, an analyst said of new April Internet traffic data.

A report by research company Media Metrix Inc. (Nasdaq:MMXI - news) of New York showed top Web networks like Lycos, Go Network backed by Walt Disney Co. and Excite all losing visitors between March and April.

No. 4-ranked Lycos lost 3 million month-to-month to drop to 28.8 million visitors in April, while No. 5 Go Network and No. 7 Excite both lost 1.3 million visitors, amid a slight drop in the estimated 65 million U.S. Internet users at home and work.

Media Metrix surveys up to 40,000 computer users and publishes statistics on visitors to the top 50 Web sites each month. Advertisers use the studies to set online ad rates.

John Robb with Gomez Advisors, an Internet consulting firm in Concord, Mass., said the survey suggested competition was heating up between portals -- popular entrances to the Internet. But Robb added that he considered Media Metrix's data ''a very rough cut'' of actual Web traffic patterns.

''There are more portals now competing for the same number of people,'' said analyst John Robb. ''It means that there will be fewer people going to specific portals.''

America Online Inc. (NYSE:AOL - news), the No. 1 network of sites, including its online services and stand-alone Web sites, dipped to 46.4 million visitors from 47 million in the previous month. Its overall audience reach was 71 percent of the total universe of Web users. Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news), the No. 2 most visited network, rose to 32.4 million from 31.9 million.

No. 3-ranked Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) lost some visitors but regained its lead over rival Lycos, which it had temporarily lost in March. Microsoft and Compaq Computer Corp. (NYSE:CPQ - news)'s AltaVista network were two of the few portals to gain visitors in April

EBay Inc. and Network Associates Inc. (Nasdaq:NETA - news) stood out among other sites that saw a shift in visitors. EBay, ranked number 20 among the top-50 sites, saw its visitors fall to 7.2 million in April from 8 million in March.

Network Associates, on the other hand, saw visitors rise to 3.8 million in April from 2.4 million the previous month.