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...success has spawned dozens of imitators. Some 70 sites are sprinkled throughout the begging categories of such Internet engines as Yahoo and About.com Some seem earnest, like helpjennifer.com dedicated to helping Jennifer Glasser pay her doctor bills for Lyme disease. (She has made $4,000 since August.) Others are more tongue in cheek, like edneedsahummer.com dedicated to getting Ed a--well, you get the idea. Many fall somewhere in between. Penny Hawkins, who is putting herself through nursing school to support her children, has made $1,400 since August via her site helpmeleavemyhusband.com "I'm not a beggar...
...trumpeting page views, registered users and other flaky metrics that mattered back then, chortals are now focusing on more prosaic matters, such as lowering costs and boosting revenues. And two of them have a profitable quarter under their belts?a rare distinction for any Internet company. The secret? Unlike Yahoo, Terra Lycos or most international competitors, chortals have found ways to parlay their user bases into sales by taking a new approach to selling ads, collecting fees for wireless services and harnessing the craze for online games. "Chinese portals originally followed Yahoo. Now they have become a leader," gushes Chang...
...analysts." Chastened dotcom CEOs are stressing humility. Sina's CEO Daniel Mao says the rally is "the beginning of a healthy comeback?but we still have a long way to go." Indeed, despite their successes, these remain tiny companies, each with annual revenues well under $50 million (compared with Yahoo's nearly $1 billion in sales). "NetEase isn't a rocket in flight," says one Internet-industry consultant. "It's only made it to the launch pad again." In the end, obscurity may be the best thing to happen to chortals. "It's been good that the spotlight hasn...
...democracy, we need a few reality checkpoints at which we all crowd together, nabob and yahoo, and rub elbows and get a clue about who lives here other than us. The draft-board physical used to be such a checkpoint, where even a Rockefeller had to spread them and bend over, but that's gone, a casualty of Vietnam. The older generation that went through all those checkpoints--Central High, the cafeteria, the Army, the train station--those folks learned to stand in line and accept their place in the picture, and they learned decency and kindness. I can remember...
...Yahoo Finance finance.yahoo.com Still the fastest, easiest way to check up on specific stocks. A ticker-symbol search pulls up the day's trading activity, plus links to charts, a company profile, research reports for sale, recent sec filings, buy-sell recommendations and more. On the personal-finance side, Yahoo Money Manager charts your net worth and helps you stick to a budget; Savings Finder shops for deals on bank accounts, credit cards and other products and services...