Providing a searchable online advertising guide featuring the goods and services of others; promoting sale of goods and services of others and providing access links to sellers through an global communication network; advertising services, namely, dissemination of advertising for others via a global communications network; providing chat rooms and bulletin boards for transmission of messages by users via a global communication network; telecommunications and communication services, namely, the electronic transmission of data and information; providing online communications links that transfer users of a global communication network to other local and global web pages; providing interactive chat rooms for transmission of messages among users of a global communication network and subscribers; providing a search engine on a global communication network; providing a search engine for locating information, resources, and the websites of others on a global communication network; providing online geographic information via a global communication network; providing a wide range of general interest information via a global communication network; providing business ratings for consumers and businesses and providing network resources for others