Operating on-line marketplaces for sellers and buyers of goods and/or services; advertising and information distribution services, namely, providing classified advertising space via the global computer network; online marketing, advertising, and the provision of commercial, advertising, and promotional information about the goods and services of others; the bringing together, for the benefit of others, of a variety of goods and services, enabling customers to conveniently view and purchase those goods and services via the Internet or other communications networks from an Internet web site particularly specializing in the marketing of the sale of goods and services of others; providing classified advertising space via the Internet or other communications network; providing consumer product and service information via the Internet; promoting the goods and services of others over the Internet; providing an online business information directory on the Internet; promoting and advertising information about the professional services of others; providing on-line computer databases and on-line searchable databases featuring classified listings and want ads; providing on-line computer databases and on-line searchable databases featuring information, classified listings and announcements about employment information and resumes, job openings, volunteer information and volunteer opportunities through community and charitable organizations and businesses, information about community service programs, information about politics, business events, and business meetings; classified listings for rentals of a wide-variety of consumer and business goods; computer services, namely, providing on-line computer databases and on-line searchable databases featuring consumer information on a wide variety of topics of general interest to the consuming public