all three companies in 1999 was good companies only amazon has increased shareholder value by 100X while the other has not or just inflation or bullmarket. the reason for the difference is amazon copied bay model and google copied yahoo yahoo and ebay and crap managemt that is why. same with facebook and obsolete myspace. reason for their success in amazon and google..just superior management. management. don't invest in companies, invest in people or management. bad management or crooked management walk and leave. this market crooked and the people who run this rackets crooked so walk. they even got the cops on their back you know what i'm saying. it's like the mafia owns this market and federal reserve the y are ripping off. robbing the biggest bank. fed is lending money at less than they can. or charity. the market doesn't need gov't support. the market is racket. man. SEC supporting a criminal organization.