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According to the latest monthly measurements of home-PC Web activity from The NPD Group helps PC-Meter, use of altavista (DIGITAL.COM) grew from 5.3 percent of Web surfers in January to 8.2 percent in February, while the three leading engines all lost some share in that period. Yahoo! (YAHOO.COM) and Webcrawler (WEBCRAWLER.COM) both slipped to a 30.6 percent penetration, still the highest total audience among search engines. In January, however, Webcrawler was used by 33..2 percent of Web surfers and Yahoo! 32.4 percent.
Educational sites continue to be the most popular category of content-provider sites among home Web users. Some 43.8 percent of surfers visited at least one educational site in February, up from 30 percent in January. The next highest ranking category was news, information and entertainment, with 34.9 percent.
InfoSeek (INFOSEEK.COM), the third ranked engine, was used by 17.4 percent of home Web users. Two other leading engines built audience in the period: EXCITE.COM rose to 8.9 percent from 7.7 percent to rank fourth and LYCOS.COM was used by 7.1 percent of Web surfers, up from 6.1 in January.
About 58 percent of home-based Web users accessed a search engine during February, down slightly from 60 percent in January, according to the PC-Meter data.
Motorola this week began shipping more than 1 million cable modems to cable companies, including Tele-Communications (TCI), Time Warner, and Comcast. The companies plan to test the equipment this summer before distributing the cable modems to cable subscribers, according to Motorola officials.
Microsoft, aiming to spread use of its Windows 95 operating program, is offering the software to schools throughout the United States for $19.95, a $60 savings.The software giant said the program would be available to elementary schools and higher education institutions from May 1 through Oct. 31, 1996.
Infoseek
http://www.infoseek.com
Launched a free World Wide Web news service called Infoseek Personal that provides customized, constantly updating news and Internet information tailored to individual tastes.
"Use Infoseek Personal to track your competitors, to follow your favorite basketball team, to keep a direct pulse on public sentiment, or to make your weekend plans," the company, which runs a top Internet directory, said in announcing the service.
The service provides customers with a unique, up to the minute page created to match a customer's interests, with links to full-text articles, stock quotes, local weather, comic strips and movie and television listings.
Netscape Communications says 92 percent of the Fortune 1000 companies use its Navigator -- confirming that Netscape's technology has indeed become the standard for Internet software.
Articles
1996 could be year of the intranet
http://www.cnet.com/Content/News/Files/0,16,1244,00.html
High Five tribute to typography
http://gnn.com/wr/96/05/03/hi5/index.html
The Best Free Stuff Online
http://www.pcworld.com/watch4/cover
Net-A-Thon
http://www.neti.org/
Bid on items donated by major computer manufacturers or
make a donation. Proceeds go to the National Education
Technology Initiative.
c|net Awards for Internet Excellence
http://www.cnet.com/Content/Features/Special/Awards/index.html
Rock 'n' Poll
http://netvote96.mci.com
The online component of the Rock the Vote program aims to find young voters where they live--on theInternet. So MCI and the Rock the Vote organization trekked to Capitol Hill to launch their effort to get potential 18- to 24year
old voters to register.
If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother
http://www.dearmom.com
Honor your Mother on Mother's Day, May 12.
PEOPLE ONLINE's "50 Most Beautiful People"
http://pathfinder.com/people/50most/
Bradley Kent collection of candy bar wrappers
http://www.math.okstate.edu/~kbradle/snacks/
Movie Critic
http://www.moviecritic.com
YoPet! - search engine for your pets.
http://www.hisurf.com/yopet/
BIain's Textures
http://www.ecn.net.au/~iain/htextures/
Free backgrounds for public consumption; highlights from the
long-running series of Desktop Texture patterns.
GIF Animation
http://web2.airmail.net/nicktg/moving/index.html
A collection - Lotsa GIF animations here.
John's Background Page
http://cpcug.org/user/jlacombe/backgrnds/johnback.html
"magic cookies" part 2
http://www.cnet.com/Content/Voices/Barr/042996/
This week, he explains cookie technology in more detail, discusses why it can be useful for consumers and Web-site designers, and describes what you can do if you're *really* worried about companies abusing your demographic information:
Everything You Need To Know About Netscape Navigator
http://www.cnet.com/Content/Features/Howto/Netscape/
Top 20 PCs: Pentium-166
http://www.pcworld.com/watch4/top20
Tap into TechHelper's
http://www.techhelper.com
Searchable product and service database for answers to
thousands of technical questions.
Introduction to Java Threads
http://www.javaworld.com/jw-04-1996/jw-04-threads.html
Threads enhance performance and functionality in various programming
languages by allowing a program to perform multiple tasks
simultaneously and efficiently. We offer a step-by-step overview of
the fundamentals.
Internet products in the form of media, information and services will blossom from an industry of less than $100 million to more than $10 billion by the end of the decade, predicted a Hambrecht & Quist analyst at a San Francisco Internet investment conference.
Neil Weintraut.predicted the Internet technology infrastructure, another attractive investment option, will grow tenfold to more than $13 billion during the next five years.
"Internet products transcend essentially our own entire economy, dislocating and reincarnating new forms of existing industries -- notably, broadcast media, publishing, entertainment, financial services and retailing," Weintraut said.
Start-Up Builds A Business Around Free E-Mail http://www.yahoo.com/headlines/960502/compute/stories/newbiz_1.html
Online Homes To More Than Triple By 2000
In a report by Jupiter Communications - The number of American homes online will more than triple to 35.2 million by the year 2000, or a third of households in the United States, a The estimates were made using a base of 9.6 million online households in the United States in 1995. It estimates that industry revenues, which totaled $2.2 billion in 1995, are expected to reach $14.2 billion by the year 2000. America Online led the pace of growth in 1995, Other companies such as CompuServe, Prodigy, and new market entrant Microsoft Network, grew steadily but could not match the pace of America Online, http://www.jup.com/