computerized online searching, ordering, and purchasing services featuring general merchandise and general consumer goods in the form of home furnishings, electronic entertainment equipment, games and entertainment items, health and fitness items, medicinal and therapeutic items, jewelry, sundries, and notions via a global computer network; computerized online searching, ordering, and purchasing services featuring the wholesale and retail distribution of musical sound recordings, spoken word sound recordings, video recordings, multimedia products, software, books, posters, and personalized greeting cards in the form of audio cassettes, audio compact discs (CDs), video cassettes, video compact discs (DVDs), floppy disks, computer compact discs (CD-ROMs and CD-Is), printed books, printed posters, printed greeting cards, and direct digital transmissions; computerized online searching, ordering, and purchasing services featuring the goods and services of other online vendors via a global computer network; providing a searchable online advertising guide featuring the goods and services of other online vendors via a global computer network; dissemination of advertising for others via an online electronic communications network; providing a searchable online publishing guide featuring the downloadable electronic publications of others via a global computer network; providing directories for people, places, businesses, and organizations listing names, descriptions, addresses, telephone numbers, electronic mail addresses, and link able home page addresses all via a global computer network; providing multiple-user access to a global computer network; electronic transmission of data and documents concerning personal and professional information via computer terminals