Providing consumer information via an artificial intelligence driven virtual assistant, namely, providing an online automated consumer resource in the nature of a website portal for searching, locating, rating and facilitating the purchase, consumption and use of a wide range of consumer products, services and information over a global communications network; advertising, marketing, and promotion services; advertising and marketing services, namely, promoting the goods and services of others by means of a virtual assistant that uses artificial intelligence; promoting the goods and services of others by providing searching, browsing and retrieving consumer product information and sites available on global computer networks and other electronic communications networks for others; promoting the goods and services of others by means of a virtual assistant that uses artificial intelligence to provide consumer and business information provided over a global computer network and other electronic communications networks according to user preferences; providing business, consumer product, and commercial information over computer networks and global communication networks; providing business, consumer product, and commercial information by means of a virtual assistant that uses artificial intelligence