LJ Index — September 2000

  1. Percentage of people who find packaging annoying: 14
  2. Position of shrink-wrap among most annoying packaging types: #1
  3. Position of CDs among most annoying shrink-wrapped packages: #1
  4. Percentage most annoyed by CDs, among people who find shrink-wrapped products most annoying: 39
  5. Position claimed by Lycos among the world's search engines, after partnering with FAST: #1
  6. Number of Web pages surveyed by FAST, according to Lycos, on June 14, 2000: 340,000,000
  7. Number of Web pages Lycos plans to survey with FAST in he coming year: >1,000,000,000
  8. Number of Web pages in Google's survey index on June 27, 2000: 1,060,000,000
  9. Number of Web pages with the word "Doubleclick," according to FAST: 109973
  10. Number of Web pages with the word "Doubleclick," according to Google: 1,129,996
  11. Total compensation of Silicon Valley CEOs in 1999: $2.3 billion
  12. Percent increase in 1999 Silicon Valley CEO compensation over the prior year: 89
  13. 1999 compensation position of John T. Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems, among Silicon Valley CEOs: #1
  14. Chambers' 1999 compensation: $121,701,629
  15. Chambers' compensation as a multiple of the combined salary of every certified teacher in the San Jose Unified School district: >2, with $36.6 million left
  16. Number of women in the top ten in compensation: 1
  17. Number of Cisco executives in the top ten: 2
  18. Number of Yahoo executives in the top ten: 4
  19. Total compensation of all four Yahoo executives: $325,463,827
  20. Total compensation of Daimler-Benz top ten executives in 1997: $11 million
  21. World position of United States in CEO-to-worker pay ratio: #1
  22. U.S. CEO-to-factory-worker pay ratio in 1999: 34-to-1
  23. Number of women per 175 men among Silicon Valley CEOs: 4
  24. Number of women among the 100 highest-paid Silicon Valley executives: 9
  25. Opening auction price offered by Tracy Cole for her answers to marketing questions: $20
  26. Number of marketing questions Tracy Cole answers for upwards of $20: 378

Sources: 1-4, Cheskin Research packaging study; 5-11, searches and press releases on Lycos, FAST and Google sites; 11-24, San Jose Mercury News; 25-26 The Standard