Providing an on-line computer database and website in the field of locating, describing, rating and evaluating a wide variety of retail and consumer goods and services; providing pricing information, price comparisons, and information about the goods and services of others via the global computer network; providing a website which features advertisements for the goods and services of others via the global computer network; business and market research, surveys and reports; conducting on-line surveys to compile data about businesses and consumers, and preparing and providing related reports; collecting, compiling and disseminating online reviews on a wide variety of retail and consumer goods and services via the global computer network; providing an online marketplace to facilitate commercial transactions between third parties in the selling and purchasing of goods and services