It's generally due to the Internet boom. It's due to both companies like Excite@Home who are further along in their life cycle as well as the second-, third-, fourth-generation startup companies that surround Excite@Home.

It's generally due to the Internet boom. It's due to both companies like Excite@Home who are further along in their life cycle as well as the second, third, fourth generation startup companies that surround Excite@Home.

It is ironic that the Internet is a global phenomenon -- yet if you're not in Silicon Valley, it's really hard to get a sense of the pace and the connections between those companies. So many of the ideas get transferred in hallway conversations, meetings over lunch and the casual interactions of the companies that are proximate.

I think it's very difficult to be a successful Internet company that isn't based in Silicon Valley.

The Yahoo! web site is normally among the fastest and most reliable on the Internet. Yahoo! consistently delivers its home page during business hours in an average of 1.5 seconds to T-1 connected locations around the U.S. with a reliability of 99.3 percent or better.

It's been boring, really. We don't do junk bonds, pork bellies, Internet funds. It's just dollar-cost averaging.