conducting business and marketing surveys, compiling data and providing information regarding comparative prices of products and services sold by merchants using electronic commerce; preparing business reports regarding electronic commerce; providing an interactive web site which provides consumer purchasing retail information for matters of interest to consumers of electronic commerce services, including information regarding real time price quotes, product and service comparisons and reviews, customer feedback on products, services and stores, availability of products and shipping charges charged by merchants of electronic commerce all through the means of a global computer network

providing on-line electronic bulletin boards for transmission of messages among computer users concerning pricing of products and other matters of interest to consumers of products and services offered via electronic commerce