The things you're searching for.	February 24, 2000

Thursday Tidbits Here's a quick run through our latest emerging queries report... OTC MANIA? We're watching a recent rise in queries for OTC and OTC BB. OTC is "over the counter" for you neophytes, and OTC BB is a quote service that handles info on OTC stocks. We're wondering if investors addicted to triple-digit annual returns are now looking to penny stocks for the Next Big Thing. X.COM Another fast-rising financial term: X.com. This is one of those new "financial supermarket" sites, offering mutual funds and banking and heaven knows what else. Several companies are competing in that field, but X.com seems to have the early lead with searchers. (Shameless product pitch: scads of juicy financial info is available at Lycos Investing.) X-MEN X.com isn't the only hot "X" query. X-Men: The Movie is getting lots of early interest in the summer cinema sweepstakes. The flick, featuring Patrick Stewart as good-guy Professor Xavier and Sir Ian McKellen as baddie Magneto, opens in July. (Tempus Fugit: remember cute li'l Anna Paquin, the 10-year-old who won an Oscar for The Piano? She's in this movie as the sexy Rogue, a bodacious mutant who absorbs the powers of anyone she touches.) DRAGONBALL BUZZ Speaking of super-duper sci-fi characters: we got a huge amount of feedback on last Friday's report on Dragonball. See our message boards for all the boards -- most of it insisting that Dragonball really IS popular in the offline world. Side note: like many Dragonball fans, the archdiocese of Mexico City is now officially bashing Pokemon. The church's opinion: "Behind the huge merchandising phenomenon one finds, as in many Japanese cartoons, a combination of elements that incite violence and sexual perversion among children." Ouch!

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