American equities may have had a decade of poor returns since the dotcom crash in 2000.

2000年网络类股崩盘后，美国股票似乎度过了低回报的十年。

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It was no secret that Sun, which never really recovered from the dotcom crash, had been searching for a buyer.

还未从网络泡沫破灭中真正复苏过来的Sun要寻求买家已经不是什么秘密了。

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Websites like Epinions collected user reviews and recommendations, but they did not sell anything—and many collapsed during the dotcom crash.

像Epinions这样的网站收集用户的评论和推荐，但不卖东西——而且有很多在网络公司萧条阶段纷纷倒闭了。

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Things did not work out that way, though, and the result was the dotcom crash.

ECONOMIST: Internet companies

Now comes the smart phone megacycle, which began, interestingly, around the time of the dotcom crash in 2000-01.

FORBES: Apple, Google, Microsoft, RIM -- Buy 'Em All!

Undoubtedly, today's big online ventures are on a surer footing than those that fell in the last dotcom crash.

ECONOMIST: An echo of a boom?