I do this for the kids. It's my favorite event. |
If you're asking me if we would have taken that deal, then no, we would not have taken that deal. But that doesn't mean it's a bad deal for Excite. |
In the near future we estimate that we will have 2 to 3 million fewer page views per day. But the farther you go out, the greater the likelihood we will recapture that and then some. |
It's not a black and white situation. We had our view of a win-win, and (Netscape) had theirs, and we just couldn't meet. |
It's not clear that the winner would actually be the winner. As you saw a shift in the analysts' view (of the Netscape deal for a single partner), we saw a shift as more details were looked at. |
Of a half dozen factors on the list, I can probably tell you money was not at the bottom of the list. |
Sponsorships are definitely at the top of the list, then commerce-oriented deals after that. If we have gaps in our service, it's in facilitating commerce. |
We were negotiating very hard for our own position, and from our perspective there was a guarantee of traffic, so that wasn't too much of a concern, |
Yes, it did come down to one thing. But I can't talk about that; it's a small industry. |
You can do anything up here because people want to come to Tahoe. You just have to give them a reason. |
you're going to have to unwind from that, and that's something we weren't sure we really wanted to do. |