Computerized on-line ordering services featuring general merchandise and general consumer goods and business supplies; dissemination of advertising of goods and services of others via local and global computer networks; operating on-line marketplaces for sellers of goods and/or services, namely, a web site on a global computer network by which third parties can offer goods and services; providing an on-line commercial information directory on the Internet, namely, a directory of third party web sites to facilitate business transactions; providing an on-line commercial information directory on the Internet