Yes, page views were up more than 10%, but Netcenter still lags Yahoo!

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Primarily this is because they are provided by a Netcenter database that can be refined without requiring you to download updated versions of the browser.

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AOL's strength in the consumer market (over 14m subscribers, with another 2m from its Compuserve subsidiary) should complement Netcenter's greater appeal to the business market.

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Earlier this year, Netscape decided to capitalize on all this incidental traffic by creating a "web portal" called Netcenter to compete with the likes of Yahoo!

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The firm recently launched an initiative called Project 60, a 60-day-long blitzkrieg to bring free E-mail, search, forums and other basic portal functions to its Netcenter site.

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AOL's consumer-biased site or on Netscape's more business-oriented Netcenter.

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Netcenter, which was redesigned and re-launched only in June, is very late to the portal party and it doesnt have that much to recommend it over the competition other than a huge (but largely accidental) amount of traffic.

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