Computerized searching, ordering and on-line retail and wholesale distributorship services featuring general consumer goods; advertising the goods and services of others; facilitating information exchange over the Internet, namely, soliciting product review from customers and publishing of advertising texts including customer opinions and recommendations; providing a web site where users can post ratings, reviews and recommendations for a broad range of consumer products; business services, namely, facilitating the transaction of business via local and global computer networks by providing computerized online ordering services featuring a wide variety of business and consumer products; 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 the buyers and sellers of goods and services on a global computer network; providing an interactive web site on a global computer network for third parties to post information, respond to requests and place and fulfill orders for products, services and business opportunities; providing electronic bulletin boards for the posting and transmission of messages among and between computer users concerning products, services and business opportunities; business assistance, namely, facilitating business transactions, namely, advertising by transmission of online publicity for third parties via an electronic marketplace for the buyers and sellers and goods and services via local and global computer networks