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Article: Bigfoot International's New Browser Takes Page from America Online's Book.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- November 11, 1998
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Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Nov. 11--At a time when Netscape and Microsoft are locked in a high-profile war over the Internet browser market, here comes an upstart targeting revenue the two companies are leaving on the table.
The people who make the NeoPlanet Web browser are motivated by an Internet truth that only America Online has profited from. It is that control of the software that helps users go online remains the only proven model for cost-effectively capturing most such traffic.
AOL has built one of the Internet's few profitable media businesses atop a mountain of floppy disks. Its software helps consumers find things online ...