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Survey: More home buyers using agents

...agent. That's compared with the 76 percent of non-Web users who used a real estate agent. And the percentage of sales...price of $138,000, compared with $120,000 for non-Web users. Part of that, of course, is due to the income differences...

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Features
Net talk is cheap but there's a price to pay

...conventional connections. There are several wrinkles, however. As with most other free communication services on the Web, users must put up with advertising windows or boxes on their computer screens. The windows typically cannot be closed as long...

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Tech
Internet could drive rush of custom-order buying to GM

...America Online Inc. and NetZero Inc., the country's largest free Internet service provider, to place ads on screen as Web users surf pages related to hobbies such as fishing, golf or other sports. Someone browsing a gardening page through AOL or...

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Cars
Teen traces family roots on way to entering Web site contest

...Granit won two years ago. The extensive Web site, which the three teens created solely for the competition, allows Web users to learn how to find clues in photographs to unlock the door to their own family histories and learn how to interview...

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BHS student a finalist in Internet challenge, but Cairo trip canceled

...Karisa Powers, 14, both of Soldatna, Alaska. The girls created a Web site solely for the competition, which allows Web users to learn how to find clues in photographs to unlock the door to their own family histories and learn how to interview...

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News
Web sites worth checking out

...images.google.com: Google, the search engine with the silly name and a serious following among increasing numbers of Web users, has added a new tool to its collection of Web mining implements. With the same phenomenal speed and thoroughness that...

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Tech
Annoying pop-up ads work

...carpet-bomb approach, converting even a tiny percentage of sales can mean good money. Gluck said 4.2 percent of Web users who saw X10's ads stayed with the site for three minutes or more. That's a far better rate than most online advertising...

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Tech
Group evaluates Web sites on privacy issue

...consortium recently approved a new system for informing Web users of how well various Web sites safeguard their personal...which it protects the personal privacy of its users. Web users can then set their browsers to automatically determine...

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Tech
Spam scam

...some the most promising pickings are convenienced by the Internet, where a spammer can easily become a scammer. All Web users know how irritating unsolicited e-mails -- spam -- can be, not only in their burgeoning numbers but also in the obviously...

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Opinion
The latest options in the hunt for bargain rooms

...find the best deal, then connects you to the site. Payment is required at the time of booking through the hotel site. Web users who download the SideStep Toolbar (it's free) are also offered a comparison of hotel rates at different sites. We...

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