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www.geopages.com; Beverly Hills Internet, Builder of Web Communities, Records l0,000th Homesteader in its GeoCities; Daily Hits Climb to Over 500,000.


Hills Internet, which builds interactive communities on the World Wide Web called GeoCities(a), recorded its l0,000th resident today.

BHI BHI Baker Hughes Incorporated
BHI Brain Heart Infusion (agar)
BHI Better Hearing Institute
BHI British Horological Institute (UK)
BHI Boots Healthcare International
BHI Branch If Higher
 also reported that hits accessing the site had risen to over 500,000 a day, up sharply from a peak of 350,000 a day last month and 50,000 a day when it launched GeoCities in June, according to according to
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"We've had to relentlessly upgrade our systems to accommodate the traffic," Mr. Bohnett said. "The more self-generated content GeoCities display, the more traffic we continue to attract," he said.

"Our paradigm, `community is content and content is community,' is clearly reflected in the GeoPages created by our homesteaders and in our spiraling traffic."

GeoCities, web communities named after real-world landmark locations, offer a homesteading program enabling anyone with access to the Web to create their own free home page.

BHI's www.geopages.com, one of the most visited sites on the Web, currently offers 14 advertiser-supported GeoCities that have been trademarked and named after popular destinations like SiliconValley(R), WallStreet(R), Hollywood(R) and SunsetStrip(R).

BHI's web site, spotlighted recently in Prodigy's weekly roundup of new or hot web sites, was rated by Point Survey in the top 5% of all Internet sites and received David Siegel's "High Five Award for Excellence in Site Design." The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times

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 just highlighted a CapitolHill GeoPage as "one of the most intriguing around" and Microsoft said yesterday that BHI's Hollywood had been designated "a Cool Movie Web Site" in The Cinemania Connection on The Microsoft Network See MSN.

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Beverly Hills Internet is in the business of building online GeoCities -- cyberspace communities of netters who have their own home pages, create their own content, reside on cyberstreets resonantly named after landmark thoroughfares from around the world and consume the goods and services In economics, economic output is divided into physical goods and intangible services. Consumption of goods and services is assumed to produce utility (unless the "good" is a "bad"). It is often used when referring to a Goods and Services Tax.  of advertisers and sponsors that are, as in real life, an integral part of the community. BHI, based in Beverly Hills, also creates custom designed commercial web sites. The company has its headquarters at 9401 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90210.

CONTACT: Jacobson Altman, New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 

Dick Altman, 2l2/697-2620

or dickaltm@panix.com

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Beverly Hills Internet, Beverly Hills

David Bohnett, 310-273-0400

or dbohnett@bhi90210.com
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