Company | Revenue Year end 1996 | Profit Year end 1996 | Quarter increasing revenue (Q3-Q4 1996) |
Yahoo | $19.07 | ($2.33) | 55% |
Infoseek | $15.10 | ($15.90) | 52% |
Lycos | $5.00 | ($2) | 37% |
Excite | $14.8 | ($43.1) | 61% |
The revenue values include other services and products from the company too.
Web Server is a big market. Today, Web browser software are free but Web Server are very expensive. The searching capability will be value added into Web Server software. It will provide searching of local data and also cooperate with Web index site.
Now, information in the web nearly free from the point of overall investment, hardware, software and telecommunication. But in the future, it may be not true. Some value information in Web are already charge for their service. If information is charge, user will expect better service for their pay. Searching tool is one critical issue. No one want un-relevant data if we have to pay for it.
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