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...smarter. At sites like mysimon.com it's possible to go shopping and search not only Amazon but also the collections of two dozen other booksellers to find the best deal. And in coming years--heck, at Net speed, in coming months--it will be possible to find the cheapest price on just about anything: wines, CDs, perhaps even body parts...
...convinced that as more customers come to his site, he'll be able to offer the lowest prices. And they will come because Amazon simply does the best job of helping them find stuff. But what if they use his site for research, then go elsewhere for the cheapest price? Bezos has considered that as well. And he has a possible solution: "Membership clubs!" he says. "If you want to see all the information we collect on Amazon--the customer reviews, the professional reviews and use our agenting technology--you have to pay $30 a year." Those membership fees would...
...professors are asking AskJeeves.com, an Internet search engine, more than just where to find the cheapest airfares--they want to know if the company has stolen technology that they developed...
STICKER SHOCK When it comes to buying a new car, online shopping may not be the cheapest road. That's the conclusion of a new study by CNW Marketing, which found that consumers who seal the deal at such sites as autobytel.com carpoint.com and autoweb.com pay on average 6.5% more than those who haggle with a dealer. (The sites dispute the findings.) Doing advance work on the Web, though, can pay off. People who browsed online before negotiating in person saved...
...next category: the hard workers, probably the most deeply anti-intellectual group at Harvard. Some work hard in their classes and can be found at all hours at computer terminals or in the bio labs, and some work hard at not working: scheduling the perfect weekend, planning the cheapest way to hit Paris and Acapulco during reading period or beating the next level on the newest Nintendo game. These people are focused and do the work that gets the grade--or at least gets them by--but ask for their thoughts and their eyes glaze over...