Of a half dozen factors on the list, I can probably tell you money was not at the bottom of the list.
There is only ever one first of anything, and this is it.
Yes, it did come down to one thing. But I can't talk about that; it's a small industry.
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.
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.
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.
This is my third trip. And I still haven't been able to buy any gas.
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.
You're going to have to unwind from that, and that's something we weren't sure we really wanted to do.
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.
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.
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