Business services, namely, facilitating the transaction of business via local and global computer networks by providing computerized online ordering services, namely, a web based catalog service wherein businesses come together and interact with each other by posting their buying and selling leads and closing a business trade deal with each other; dissemination of advertising of goods and services of others via local and global computer networks; providing a web site on a global computer network by which third parties can offer goods and services, place and fulfill orders, enter into contracts and transact business; providing a directory of third party web sites to facilitate business transactions; operating an electronic marketplace for buyers and sellers of goods and/or services on a global computer network