** Netscape.com **

Netscape, one of original Web browsers, still offers its browser software free, though you must do some searching on their site to find it.

Scroll to bottom and click "Download Latest Netscape Browser."

Based on their site, Netscape seems to be in middle of an identity crisis since they look more like Yahoo! than a software provider.

** An 800 lb. Gorilla on horizon? **

Online search engine powerhouse, Google, has never shied away from taking on Microsoft.

In fact, they've done something Microsoft couldn't do, namely turn a profit with a search engine. Based on past behavior, how long do you think it will take Google to release a Web browser of their own?

Despite statements to contrary, I believe Google will come out with their own Web browser within next 18 months. Look at their Hotmail.com alternative, Gmail, at http://gmail.Google.com.

Google gave away so much storage space they forced Hotmail to make major concessions in their free service.

Google Desktop blows away Microsoft search utility for your PC.

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The ideal circumstance is when you find a linking partner with complementary/relational approach built into his sales program and layout structure of his website. Meaning: Location, location, location!

Without above approach, many possibilities to garner extra income from your Net venture will not take flight! The above paragraph should have even more meaning when you consider fast-approaching age of general broadband use. It is coming sooner than what anybody imagines; spelling out end of many text only websites.

For all good reasons you should strive to create complementary/relational linking with as many partners as merited. Build your website to give them as much exposure as you can. All bells and whistles! Provide ample space and graphics for them, trade full page articles and resources! Very important: Have them do same for your business!

In closing I will exhort you to embrace multimedia and broadband revolution as a principle of self preservation. The folks that take all their resources and put them in a text only links page will suffer twists and turns of not-so-kind near future!

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by Francisco Aloy

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