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To: Earlie who wrote (70607)	11/16/1999 10:47:00 AM
From: Skeeter Bug	Respond to of 132070

Message 11948447 ;-)

To: Earlie who wrote (70607)	11/16/1999 1:42:00 PM
From: benwood	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Earlie, I agree that those companies that have products can get lost in the search process. Funny you should mention skates, because I did searches for ice skates last spring and it actually took me about 30 minutes of hunting around to find what I wanted (and information about the products). But another time I saw a dragonfly t-shirt in a shop that wasn't my size. When I got home I found and ordered it in 5 minutes from a naturalist company I'd never heard of before. But I'm an expert at web searching -- I even figured out how to buy a fridge in Washington State and not pay the 8.6% sales tax and still get a nice discount; but I just can't see my dear old Dad accomplishing doing any of that, nor knowing where and how to begin to look. However, I do believe that help is on the way. Smart, personal search agents will be the answer to deliver what you want to you while weeding out the noise. I think I read (or saw) that some of these will be debuting soon, too. Plus, for certain items, you can latch onto sites like pricewatch.com which do some searching for some items for you. One economist I read about predicted that price wars in the Internet era will be swift and savage. It's easy to see why, especially considering that Internut companies will employ their own bots at times to keep their prices best, until they go bust anyway.