... , where everything is easily accessible through the Internet via the World Wide Web with a simple click of a mouse button. Virtual companies or electronic companies (e-companies) such as Amazon.com, Yahoo.com and millions more have successfully established themselves as profitable net-media commodities that generate big business. These e-companies provide goods and or services to meet every person's needs, from purchasing ... rated amongst the best to those that contain the keywords used for the initial search. A computer software' search of three of the most frequently used search engine...

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... company employs an online auctioning technique to gain a huge first mover advantage, appealing to the winner take all impact of the consumer. Amazon.com appeals to several different facets of the consumer's character. The Web site offers the customer the opportunity to shop virtually anywhere in the world ... the site. The site is easily accessible and easy to use. Everything from bargains to featured partners is just a click away. Amazon.com promises safety to the consumer whether they are participating in an auction or using the conventional way to shop and guarantees all transactions. ...

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... HR professionals: job boards, professional or career sites, and employer sites. Job boards are the most common and well known. Popular job boards like www.monster.com, www.jobs.com, www.hotjobs.com, and www.careerbuilder.com make it easy for job seekers to search available positions and easy for recruiters to advertise those positions. Although job boards are free to job seekers companies ... must pay a fee to utilize these services. Bill Warren, former CEO of www.monster.com, developed an alternative to traditional job boards when he created www.directemployers.com. This site is a not-...

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... of a search engine list, drawing higher traffic to that site - even if the site has nothing to do with the search request (Wordspy.com). In 'Shaping the Web' Introna and Nissenbaum (2000) stated that search engines "systematically exclude certain sites and certain types of sites, ... the process of affecting the visibility of a website or a web page in a search engine's "natural" or un-paid ("organic") search results (Wikipedia.com). SEO may target different kinds of searches, including image search, local search, video search, academic search (Beel et al. 176-190), n...

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... can be distributed to every part of the globe accessible via a PC and modem. There are many web sites devoted to tourism such as the British Tourist Authority's www.visitbritain.com site. The number of Internet users shopping online for travel and leisure services doubled in 1999 to 27 million. Travel has beaten computer software to the number one spot as ... the same holiday, they may have completely different reasons for going there, depending on their situation before the holiday, and therefore achieve different gratification. The Visit Britain Website - www.visitbritain.com (Fig4) T...

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... engine. ECommerce and Trademarks Today's hot topic in e-commerce law is whether a domain name constitutes a valid and recognisable trademark. Domain names have become powerful tools in a company's success. Yahoo.com and Amazon.com is classic examples of how small start up companies can successfully compete with multi-million dollar corporations over the WWW. A domain name gives a company an identity and a symbol for ... UK there was a case where a trademark owner was successful against ill-motivated "cyber-squatters". "Cyber-squatting" is where a person registers the domain name of a we...

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... Generation of LAN Access: Addressing the Requirements of Mobile Networking-, retrieved from the World Wide Web at http://www.nwfusion.com/whitepapers/extreme/ Tom Fout, "Wireless LAN Technologies and Windows XP-, retrieved from the World Wide Web at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/evaluate/wrlsxp.asp Trapeze Network online white paper: "Capacity is Critical: Designing ... Enterprise Wireless LANs for Capacity vs. Coverage-, retrieved from the World Wide Web at http://www.trapezenetworks.com/tech/tech_cvc.html Trapeze Network online...

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... will make you feel full. Devour anything that helps you lose weight, for example, cough drops, hoodia or fiber. Chose a thinspiration that has your body type." (http://pro-anorexia.webs.com/tipsandtricks.htm) The 'tips' listed here are only a few of many, but convey the extreme weight loss methods used by anorexia women, and how far they will go to achieve ... -ana' women reach their end weight loss goals. These women are seeking help and emotional support from fellow 'pro-ana' women and girls, as one website, http://anorexic-circle.livejournal.com, is a live blog where young girls write...

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... Supply is a company that for the past 70+ years has built its business through its "brick and mortar" sites. In 1995, Grainger moved into the digital world and established grainger.com. In 1996 Grainger began taking orders online and fully immersed itself in e-commerce. Still, it was not until 1998 that the company recognized the need for different marketing strategies for ... . This marketing approach has served the branch-based business well and the company continues to be successful on this front. In June of 1995, Grainger launched its web site, grainger.com offering little more than ...

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... Newspaper Association of America Study found 19% of all recent homebuyers used the Internet as their main source of information. (Carlson, "Nibbling on Newspapers") Job seeker sites such as, Monster.com have taken the biggest chunk out of newspaper-classified revenue and hence waged an unexpected battle with the publishers of newspapers around the world for the almighty advertising dollar. The ... New York Times Company, Times Mirror and the Times Tribune Company have joined together to form Careerpath.com to bring the battle to the home of online foes. (Carlson, "nibbling") The newspap...

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... help individuals who, with a small loan, can own their own business, by offering guidance, advice, and low interest start-up capitol. (Subway web team, 2003, Available HTTP: http://www.subway.com/subwayroot/AboutSubway/helpingSociety/index.aspx) The standardization build by Subway enable the menu stays relatively the same wherever Subway are located, with the exception of some cultural and religious variations ... as posters, menu transits, etc. This advertising strategy promotes Subway to all over the world, and marketing Subway into international markets. (Subway web team, 2003, Avail...

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... feel that the Google website invades their privacy to an extreme extent. The users have discovered that if you type your phone number, including your area code, into the Google.com search engine, very personal, reserved information is given out. After approximately 3-5 seconds, the results show on to your screen as you sit there rather surprised. Because you have typed in ... it to their advantage. In my opinion, not only is internet privacy important, privacy in general is significant. Invading ones privacy by getting road maps to their homes from Google.com and the findings of the "Co...

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... exists even after the combined efforts of both franchised dealers represented by NADA and manufacturers to limit them only to lead generators and direct sellers. Internet companies such as CarOrder.com who haven taken the route of buying local dealers and have them serve as distribution centers where their new and used car inventory would be kept. This was a way around ... the laws banning new car sales by non-franchise dealers, because the newly bought dealers were franchised dealers controlled by CarOrder.com. Bargaining Powers of Suppliers and Buyers As stated earlier in the Potentia...

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... given demonstrate how internal and external factors becomes a resource to succeed (Retail Store). References Malden Mills, Daylight From Ashes, Retrieved April 16, 2003 from World Wide Web: http://www.kalwall.com/1.htm Malden Mills Retail Store, Retrieved April 16, 2003 from the World Wide Web: http://www.maldenmillsstore ... ...

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... , and post them through Web browser-based services like Mozilla Firefox or Torch browser, mobile devices and e-mail. Till today, the most common micro-blogging service is Twitter (http://twitter.com). Twitter is a free for all social networking and micro-blogging service that enables users to read and re-share other people's updates which is known as tweets that are text ... ...

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... "information superhighway?" Signing on refers to the act of connecting to the Internet in this context. Before this digital era, signing on meant to engage by written agreement (www.dictionary.com). The information superhighway is "the name coined by US Vice-president Al Gore in the early 1990s for the emerging high-speed global communications network capable of carrying voice, data ... ...

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... barrier between a user and X-rated material, in addition some pornographic sites have addresses which are similar to popular sites, such as www.whitehouse.gov (the real site) and www.whitehouse.com (the porn site), causing people to be lured to their sites through a simple misunderstanding or even a minute typing error. Before one can come to a consensus about what is right, there ... ...

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... made it the seemingly ideal platform for conducting electronic commerce. People can now go online to buy CDs, clothing, concert tickets, and stocks. Several companies, such as Digicash, Cybercash, CarParts.com, and First Virtual, have sprung up to provide mechanisms for conducting business on the Web. The savings in cost and the convenience of shopping via the Web are immeasurable. Where ... ...

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... suit individual quirks and preferences with a click of the mouse would surely mean the demise of effective branding" An example of this is Proctor and Gamble, who have launched Reflect.com, which allows consumers to create their own beauty products. Traditionally advertising agencies were responsible for delivering communication to maintain and also create brand images, with the recent control of the ... ...

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... store. Of course, shopping's still done everyday, but how many ways can it be done is the question. More than ever, traditional retailers are feel more threatened by the dot COM beast. Many issues include debating time, money, and availability between online and traditional shopping. Although shoppers today flood the malls as much as the Internet, the real question remains, will ... ...

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... people who not only despise him, but dedicate entire web-sites to criticizing him and his company; if you are one of those people you can check out www.onmacon.com (access will not be granted if you use Microsoft Internet Explorer). Some have even gone as far as throwing pies in his face... It's an irony that one of the ... ...

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... three or four more relating to the closure of an 'E-Company' or the breakdown in security of a major Internet corporation. High profile examples include the report last March on Amazon.com, "Intruders had access to customer credit details for four months at site owned by world's biggest e-tailer". These kinds of reports have led to talk in the electronic business sector ... ...

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