Promoting the sale of goods and services of others by providing hypertext links to the web site of others, and through on-line ordering and cataloging of those goods and services; Internet consumer comparison shopping services; providing ratings and reviews of online merchant businesses in a wide variety of fields for use by consumers; providing databases containing commercial information relating to products and merchants in a wide variety of fields; providing databases featuring consumer products and merchants information in a wide variety of fields

Providing a search engine on the Internet for obtaining information on consumer products and merchants; providing specific information as requested by customers via the Internet; searching and retrieving information, sites, and other resources available on computer networks for others based on user-defined information or user profiles