Lycos Deal the Talk of the Web
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The Lycos takeover, and Net stocks’ declines in general, spurred plenty of comments Tuesday in investor Web chat rooms.
One angry investor, referring to a probable alliance between Lycos and Home Shopping Network, proposed a new slogan: “Use Lycos--the rest of the trailer park does.” Another, on the Silicon Investor Web site, referred to Lycos’ “brain-dead deal with [Barry] Diller” and charged that “a lot of people got shot down today because of Lycos--shame on Lycos.” Other comments:
* “If you got burned with Lycos, get your money back shorting Yahoo. Lycos’ deal only better illustrates Yahoo’s overvalue.”
-- A.J., writing on Silicon Investor’s site
* “I don’t think you can call a 30% drop in this sector more than indigestion. Nothing like the meltdown that will come later, when the Internet shifts into a higher level of competition and dilution.”
-- Rob S., on Silicon Investor’s site
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