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Hiring a Real Estate Virtual Assistant: Why You Have Not Yet And Why You Should

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Building a Real Estate business takes a real commitment, mentally and physically. There are always some tough decisions to be made when deciding the right vehicle to use to send your business to the next level of success. Hiring an assistant, either remote or on-site, is one of the toughest. On one hand, you know that you need one. On the other hand, is it the right move or are you just better off doing it all yourself? Hiring an on-site assistant has simply become the least desirable way to go from many different standpoints. On-site assistants must have adequate training and knowledge in order to be effective. If you are fortunate enough to acquire a knowledgeable assistant, you must then be able to provide a competitive wage, desk space, computer, effective software programs. Now you enter into even higher ticket items such as employment taxes, benefits, vacation and sick pay. More and more, this option is becoming less desirable. Enter the Real Estate Virtual Assistant. The REVA is an experienced assistant with an entrepreneurial mindset. An established REVA will be able to provide multiple references and knowledge portfolio.** End Summary**

About the Author:
Sandi Logan is the owner of Logan Real Estate Support. Sandi and her Real Estate Virtual Assistant Team provides Transaction, Listing and Marketing Coordination services to Agents and Brokers around the country.

Build Your Online Presense And Build Your Customer Base

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

No way around it. Your small business needs a website with internet presence if you want people to be able to find and make purchases from you online. Even if you are only offering services or products to people in your local area you need a website. Because most people these days, use the internet to research what services and products are available in their local area and beyond, before hopping in the car and driving to a local business. If you are in need of a website for your small business, there are many resources online to help even the novice build a business website. Just remember that building a website is only the beginning. You also need search engine optimization for your small business website. There are websites of every kind on the internet. The majority of them are there for the purpose of legitimate business, while a few are used as fronts by con artists to cheat people out of their money. Unfortunately, good business websites can get shuffled to the bottom in result windows by bad websites, and other factors, unless you take precautions to protect your small business website.** End Summary**

About the Author:
Our Virtual Assistants (VA) support real estate and business professionals nationwide with all of their marketing, technical, and administrative needs. Visit our Virtual Assistant (VA) Directory to find a Virtual Assistant today.

Article Marketing and Article Submission

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Articles can be used to promote your small business if you market them right. Of course marketing them correctly means submitting them to the article submission sites with the greatest visibility because this means bigger crowds to attract traffic to your website from. The bigger the traffic flow to your website, the more prospects you have that could become customers for your small business. Articles must be marketable before you attempt to market them, regardless of the article submission sites chosen. This simply means that your articles need to fill a need. That can be to educate or provide people with information on real estate, aspects of running a small business, and on products and services. By writing such articles you are teaching people about what you do, and providing them with information about why they might want to select you when looking for a provider of the services you offer. The best way to accomplish marketability for your articles is to write on subjects pertaining to your business that you are the most familiar with.** End Summary**

Small Business Blogs, Blogging and RSS

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Two of the best and powerful promoting tools for small business today are blogs and RSS feeds. They are simple to set up and offer many benefits for the small business owner. You need to create an extensive network of contacts to make the most monetary proceeds and accolades from the small business trade industry related to your small business. Blogs have become all the rage for personal and business use for several reasons. They are great communication tools, they can be informative, interactive, and integrate with many other platforms with ease, plus a blog will gain popularity in a search engine usually much quicker than a standard website could for the same search term. RSS feeds provide fresh content that is updated in real time meaning it will never be content that has been parked on a page for awhile, and content that may not even be relevant anymore. RSS feeds on a wide and constantly increasing range of topics are obtainable easily through subscriptions to them and RSS readers.** End Summary**

Presentation and Promotional Materials Build Your Brand Awareness

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

A cardinal rule of business is to be well prepared in every aspect of your business. This can quickly become a hard rule to follow when business is booming and there is so much to track and prepare to be used in the most beneficial ways for your business. But ignoring the importance of being well prepared in all aspects of your particular business can stifle your productivity and cause you to lose clients and revenue. Presenting your business, services, and business ideas to clients and prospective clients is an integral part of generating high interest in your small business and continuing to generate high interest in your business through the changes that are inherent in every business industry. Presentations help you to illustrate your business mission, services, goals, and ideas more clearly. Promotional materials given to attendees provide them with tangible reminders of what has been presented to them. Promotional materials are also used of course to help promote your business and they should not be restricted to handouts to attendees of your meetings, but also as part of strategic promotional runs. This is all well and good.** End Summary**

About the Author:
Our Virtual Assistants (VA) support real estate and business professionals nationwide with all of their marketing, technical, and administrative needs. Visit our Onlibe Virtual Assistant (VA) Directory to find a Virtual Assistant in your state.

Blogging Is A Growing Trend In Real Estate Marketing

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

One thing is for sure in real estate. The leaders in the industry are those who are always on top of the latest happenings in real estate and base their business moves on the freshest information available. To be on top these leaders use a variety of information gathering sources in order to stay at the forefront of the changes that affect their work and the industry as a whole. Real estate related blogs have emerged as important sources of information that the elite and beginning professional alike look to for the info they need to succeed. Blogs are in great numbers on the internet which is a fact that I am sure has not escaped you. The internet and blogs provide the quickest and easiest method for vast amounts of people to communicate with one another. This has certainly changed the face of business today and the real estate industry has also experienced a facelift thanks to the power of the internet and blogs. Blogging has created an opportunity for powerful networking, and as you know networking is of major importance to you as a real estate professional.** End Summary**

About the Author:
Certified Real Estate Virtual Assistants | Online Assistant | VA Our Real Estate Virtual Assistants (VAs) support real estate professionals nationwide with all of their marketing, technical, and, administrative needs. Visit our VA Directory to find a Virtual Assistant in your state.

Podcasting For Your Real Estate Business

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500

Make room for the next generation in online communications, the Podcast. A podcast allows you to host your very own radio show and you do not need to work in the broadcasting industry or even be that entire tech savvy to create a podcast. For those who are not sure what exactly a podcast is, it is simply an audio and video file containing speech, text, video, and even music if you like, that you create for others to download to their computer or MP3 mobile device to listen to at their convenience. Try Itunes and similar online outlets to find other real estate podcasts that you can download free to get a feel for how others have created theirs. How do you get your podcast to your intended audience? By uploading your audio file along with and RSS file to your website. Visitors then can utilize programs designed to enable automatic downloading of these files for fast and simple on demand access to your podcast. Ten Podcasting Tips One, consider contracting with a real estate virtual assistant who offers website services such as podcast development and implementation, especially if you are not comfortable with speaking at length.** End Summary**

About the Author:
Our Real Estate Virtual Assistants (VA) support real estate professionals nationwide with all of their marketing, technical, and, administrative needs. Visit our VA Directory to find a Virtual Assistant in your state.

Best Tools for the Real Estate Agent

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0400

Successful real estate agents are very busy professionals and any tool that can help them get more done is usually looked upon with high praise. Read on to learn about the best tools that every agent should consider using. A PDA and cell phone combo that also includes email capabilities is one of the best tools for keeping you in touch even on the go. You can take and make important calls whether you are at your desk or on an airplane headed to a real estate conference. With the email feature you will not miss important incoming business emails and can send responses to them as well. Keeping organized and in contact with clients is crucial and it is handy to have an organizer, phone, and email agent featured in one device rather than having to carry separate mobile devices. A business website to showcase your agent skills and services, highlight listings to encourage the movement of them, to connect with customers and to build bigger customer ranks, for targeted marketing, and to place your company ahead of the competition is a top priority and one of the best tool for realtors.** End Summary**

About the Author:
Our Real Estate Virtual Assistants (VA) support real estate professionals nationwide with all of their marketing, technical, and, administrative needs. Visit VA Directory to find a Virtual Assistant in your state.

Online Marketing for Real Estate Listings

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0400

If you want to move real estate today it is essential that you get your listings before the biggest possible audience of prospective buyers. Leading realtors utilize the power of the internet to market their listings to the widest audiences possible and this is what you also need to do. With online marketing you have several effective and different ways in which you can market your listings to move them from, For Sale to Sold. Most every real estate agent understands that they must have a website today and I am sure that you are aware of this as well. Your realty website is the landing zone where all your other online marketing efforts will direct traffic to and is also the first place people are most likely to look for when researching who you are, the services you offer, and for confirmation from customer testimonials of the results you have achieved. Once traffic has been rerouted to your website from the teasers you have put out there to get them interested in a visit, you have to give them something to make it worth their while.** End Summary**

Michigan Real Estate Virtual Assistant's In Demand

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0400

The Michigan real estate industry supports many other industries that create a slew of occupations and pay scales so that many other people beyond just the buyer and seller benefit from real estate. A few of those occupations are developers, builders, mortgage lenders, and a relative newcomer, Michigan real estate virtual assistants. The virtual industry within the real estate industry is a direct result of increased activity real estate agents in that area. The flutter of increased activity has made for much more office work, and more papers to keep tabs on and have ready to finish up real estate dealings for the typical Michigan agent. A successful agent must divide their time between office work and making important connections with the various people involved in the real estate transaction. Many agents are finding it wiser to delegate much of the office work to a Real Estate Virtual Assistant (REVA). This is a better division of time the agent has for making those important connections with the people in real estate. The more connections that an agent can make in a day, the more potential there is for converting these connections into real sales and profits.** End Summary**

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Michigan Real Estate Virtual Assistant Directory Our Michigan Real Estate Virtual Assistants (REVA) support real estate professionals nationwide with all of their marketing, technical, and, administrative needs. Find your Real Estate Virtual Assistant Today!

What Does The Maryland Real Estate Assistant Offer

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0400

When a real estate transaction is made, it has to be noted, and the notation of the transaction stored somewhere. This makes the dealings legal and binding and the stored files are used for a variety of business purposes such as bookkeeping, preparing tax statements, and submission to the local recorders office where the transaction has taken place. Making notations of transactions and storing them in organized files is known as transaction coordination. This has always been a part of conducting business, but the majority of this type of work is now done online because of advances in computer technology. Maryland real estate transaction coordinators can offer agents a wide array of transaction management services using the latest technology. A transaction manager can also create detailed graphs highlighting areas in which the agent has experienced the highest revenues, information which the agent can use to manufacture similar revenue results in the future. Still other reports that the Maryland real estate virtual assistant OTC specialist is able to produce through online transaction coordination can showcase areas that have yet to be exploited for their revenue potential by the agent.** End Summary**

About the Author:
Maryland Real Estate Virtual Assistant Directory Our Maryland Real Estate Virtual Assistants (REVA) support real estate professionals nationwide with all of their marketing, technical, and, administrative needs. Find your Real Estate Virtual Assistant Today!

Maine Real Estate Virtual Assistants Travel and Enjoy Life

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0400

Virtual assistants are not waiting on the arrival of their retirement years in order to travel and enjoy life. They are enjoying many of the things we all long to enjoy right now. A virtual assistant is a self employed professional who acts as an office assistant for bustling real estate agents, via the internet. They perform much of the same work as any office assistant. However, they are self employed professionals and are not considered employees of the real estate agencies they perform work for. They are in control of setting their weekly work schedules. This gives them leeway to work one week and travel the next. They may even choose to take a laptop computer with them so that they can travel for longer periods of time and have the finances to fund more travel. The internal office work of a VA is an integral part to the quality, volume, and financial returns. But to create this integral internal office work, the professional has to be out mixing with the people who buy, sell, and invest in real estate. Organization is imperative for a virtual assistant to be successful.** End Summary**

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Maine Real Estate Virtual Assistant Directory Our Maine Real Estate Virtual Assistants (REVA) support real estate professionals nationwide with all of their marketing, technical, and, administrative needs. Find your Real Estate Virtual Assistant Today!

Promote Your Virtual Assistant Business

Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0400

You have your home office all set up for your real estate virtual assistant business. Now where are all the clients you need so that you can afford to work from home? There are plenty of clients out there for you to find and make an income working for, but you have to promote your business to them first. The internet is littered with articles focusing on how to promote a business. However, not enough of these are specific to the promoting needs of a real estate assistant business, and some ask you to follow so many steps that it can make you queasy trying to get it all straight in your head. It can be enough of a nail biting time if you are just beginning your business. The added pressure of trying to promote your business while also completing work that comes in so that you can get paid, is asking a lot of yourself. In truth, promoting your business may need time that you do not have to spare as you are trying to make a living at the same time.** End Summary**

About the Author:
Real Estate Virtual Assistant Directory Our Certified Real Estate Virtual Assistants support real estate professionals nationwide with all of their marketing, technical, and, administrative needs. We specialize in Online Transaction Coordination (OTC) and also offer Virtual Assistant (VA) Coaching.

Market Your Listings For Maximum Exposure

Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0400

Right now you have several properties that are considered to be the crowned jewels in real estate from your neck of the woods. If they sit too long without good representation though, they will lose their sparkling appeal to buyers. When buyers learn that a listing has been sitting for awhile they assume something must be amiss with the property. Buyers may be mistaken in their assumptions but this usually makes it less likely that your seller will get their asking price. The end result of this is disappointed sellers and skittish buyers who force the price and profits spiraling downward. The key to getting your listings in front of those most likely to buy high is to market your listings to them as fast as possible. Marketing listings is not an easy task by any stretch of the imagination, unless you are an expert at it. There are plenty of tools that can be used to simplify the process of listings marketing, but these require a broad base of knowledge which takes some time to acquire. Premier real estate virtual assistants have spent the time to gain a broad base of knowledge about the keys to supreme listings marketing.** End Summary**

About the Author:
Certified Real Estate Virtual Assistants | Online Assistant | VA Our Certified Real Estate Virtual Assistants (VA) support real estate professionals nationwide with all of their marketing, technical, and, administrative needs. We specialize in Online Transaction Coordination (OTC) and also offer Virtual Assistant (VA) Coaching. Find your Real Estate Virtual Assistant Today!

Small Business Assistant Services

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0400

As a small business owner it is understandable to sometimes feel as if you cannot compete with those larger conglomerates that also have larger financial resources available to them. But you can edge your profit margin ever closer to theirs and give them a good showing with sound business choices. You may have to track your money a little harder than they do, but trust that they too have to track the flow of money in and out at some point. You can make a lesser budget work just as hard for you as if it were millions, if you do it right. Keeping your employee ratio as low as possible so that you can avoid having to pay out large sums of what could be your businesses profits is one of those right moves. Such a suggestion may scare you. How will a number of office obligations be met if you do not have the employees to see that they are done? The budget savvy answer to that is to hire a small business assistant for the office services you would normally have to pay an employee to perform.** End Summary**

About the Author:
Professional Small Business Assistants Our Professional Small Business Assistants support small business owners, entrepreneurs, and executives with all of their marketing, technical, creative, and administrative needs. Request a Quote on our website today!

Idaho Real Estate Virtual Assistants: A Hot Commodity

Mon, 28 May 2007 00:00:00 -0400

Enterprising Idaho real estate brokers have to be the first to meet with and get the business of those engaging in estate exchanges. This is a tough career choice with plenty of stiff competition among brokers. Still, the financial compensation for being the first is well worth a few foot blisters most will concede. Enterprising brokers are out doing the foot work that enables them to be the successful and affluent in their business. Meanwhile, there is an undercurrent of real estate exchanges which is not uppermost in the minds of most people besides the broker. At least not until it comes time to sign the legal documents involved in estate exchanges, and even then, most people are not aware of how much time is involved in creating and managing all of these legal documents and that other paperwork and file managing is also common in the profession of a broker. Paperwork builds up quickly and many can find themselves with a backlog of paperwork which places constraints on their productivity and financial compensations. A hot commodity for this is the Idaho real estate virtual assistant.** End Summary**

About the Author:
Idaho Real Estate Virtual Assistant Directory Our Idaho Real Estate Virtual Assistants (REVA) support real estate professionals nationwide with all of their marketing, technical, and, administrative needs. Find your Real Estate Virtual Assistant Today!

What Is A Real Estate VA? And What Do They Do?

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0400

The real estate VA is a vocation that has been produced by the large and powerful real estate industry. This vocation is growing into quite a powerful industry of its own and is becoming more familiar to other industry professionals. If you are not yet all that familiar with the a real estate virtual assistant you may have several questions about what they are and what kind of work do they do. A VA is a professional, independent service provider. Because they are independent service providers, they are considered contract workers and not salaried employees of the agents who choose to contract services from them. The employee regulations that must be adhered to with salaried employees can be quite cost inhibitive, and are absent with an independently contracted employee. The work most commonly performed is the same as a salaried office assistant most commonly performs. From telemarketing, customer relations, record management, promotions, lead gathering, website development and SEO, banking, data and more specialized services as customer database management and online transaction coordination. A virtual assistant is a wise and affordable choice for agents beyond the considerable savings of not having the cost responsibilities of a salaried employee.** End Summary**

About the Author:
Sarah Reiter is owner of Creative Agent Solutions, the top Real Estate Virtual Assistant company. Her team supports real estate professionals nationwide with all of their marketing, technical, and, administrative needs. Certified Real Estate Virtual Assistant

Real Estate SEO Services

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0400

You may already be informed about many of the duties that a real estate VA can do to assist realtors. Perhaps you have even toyed with the idea of outsourcing your office work to one because you have heard so much about the advantages that they can offer to an agent. Yet it may be news to you that many can also provide SEO services for your website. Your website desperately needs search engine optimization if it is to produce the results you desire. SEO strategies in and of themselves are not at all that complex. However, most of them do require quite a bit of your time to do them properly. I really do not have to tell you that, time is what you are always wishing you had more of as a hard working realtor. You are constantly on the move trying your level best to make those real estate exchanges and the profits from them happen. You can not call a halt to earning your living and give your website the SEO it needs. Instead you can call on the services of a real estate VAs for the SEO needs of your website.** End Summary**

Online Real Estate Networking

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0400

You might be amazed to learn about all that online real estate networking groups can do for you and your business. An networking group is more than just a place to shoot the breeze, although you should allow yourself to take a step back from the daily pressures of work regularly to keep stress in check. They have caught on in such a big way because even though they consist of relaxed versus corporate tense atmospheres, a lot of people find more success because of these groups. Online real estate networking groups among other things are also tremendous teaching tools. They are the best place to learn what the industry is all about and whether you are suited for it or not. The strategies that others have found to be a hit are shared freely for all to benefit from in networking groups. The very latest industry news is often found in these groups being discussed and formulated into winning strategies for continued success in the real estate industry. It has often been said that two heads are better than one, so imagine how much better an entire group of heads focused on a common goal are.** End Summary**

Things Not To Do When Starting Your Own Real Estate VA Practice

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0400

These are some of the things that you shouldn't do when starting your own real estate VA practice. 1.Do not let your enthusiasm for starting your own VA practice override the sensibility of carefully creating a business plan before you put that open for business sign in the window. Many people have jumped right into business with plenty of enthusiasm, but without a clearly-defined business plan, which doomed them to certain failure. Do not let this happen to you. Take the time to plan your path to success in your VA practice. 2.Do not think that you are so educated on matters pertaining to the Virtual Assistant industry that you do not need to continually boost your knowledge. The real estate market is one of constant change-and those who do not keep themselves up with those changes-quickly fall by the wayside. 3.Do not assume you know everything there is to know about such things as marketing, website design, networking, building client relationships, how referrals can be used to increase sales, and the techniques that are available to help you succeed in your own VA practice.** End Summary**

How Time Management Can Make Or Break Your Real Estate VA Business

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0500

Look in business advice articles or ask business leaders about the keys to successful business and you will notice that time management emerges as one of the top cite strategies for success in business. Success is what you want for your VA business or you would still be working for someone else in that 9 to 5 job you walked away from to work for yourself in your own business. Why is time management cited so often as a strategy for success in business? How can time management make or break your VA business? Time management does not top the list just because it sounds professional and business like. Time management is crucial to the success of your practice because if you can not manage your time well, you will not be able to manage the other aspects of your VA business successfully. I am sure that you have heard before that time is money, and this is a truthful statement that bears repeating, and often.** End Summary**

Let a VA Handle Your Transactions While You Take a Vacation

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0500

Do you find yourself sneaking moments away from your work to look at vacation brochures? You have been working hard, its time to reward yourself with some time away from the office. Aahh, but you have real estate transactions that will be coming in soon, so how can you possibly take some much needed and deserved time away from the office? Let a VA handle your transactions while you take a vacation. That is right. Let a professional virtual assistant handle all of your transactions while you soak up sunrays on a beach somewhere sipping one of those tropical drinks with the umbrella in them. With the aid of a VA you can remain just as productive and just as successful realtor you have worked so hard to become, even while vacationing. The internet and such superior online transaction coordination databases such as the one provided by SettlementRoom allows you to outsource the work of maintaining transactions to an online virtual assistant to coordinate for you while you get away from the office. REVAs are skilled at OTC or online transaction coordination so you can confidently leave this work to them while getting away from it all.** End Summary**

About the Author:
Sarah Reiter is owner of Creative Agent Solutions, the top Real Estate Virtual Assistant company. Her team supports professionals nationwide with all of their marketing, technical, and, administrative needs. Certified Real Estate Virtual Assistant

Real Estate Software Every Virtual Assistant Should Know

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0500

You will see a definite increase in the amount of work realtors will outsource to you once they learn that you know and understand how the top software works. Agents understand how valuable these software tools are for their success as agents, and you can easily learn how to use these software programs with convenient and affordable online training. To boost your edge over competing virtual assistants, the following is a listing of the top software that every virtual assistant should know about if they want to find success as a REVA. WriteMyAds is a brand new web based service that can turn your ad copy into the stunning copy that gets results. Rainmaker E .Central 4 is an impressive marketing system for automated drip email campaigns with more than 1800 plug in website pages. Keeping track of drip email marketing campaigns is simple with this system. SettlementRoom is a top online based online transaction coordination database management system that helps you complete your OTC work with ease. Many online virtual assistant training includes courses that cover this important resource for agents and the virtual assistants they outsource OTC to.** End Summary**

Learn How Outsourcing Can Reduce Stress

Sat, 03 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0500

Do you just burn with envy sometimes at how some of the most successful people that you know seem to always be so carefree and full of energy while you are dragging through your work days full of exhaustion? What is the secret formula they seem to possess and you want to possess? It is not so much a secret as it is a recipe for getting the most out of your work days without burning the candle at both ends to get the successful sales results you want and need as an agent. The largest ingredient in this recipe is time management, and outsourcing adds the flavoring to make this a tasty treat that increases your potential for success as an agent. One of the most harmful factors for agents successful output of work and a good return for those efforts is stress. Stress is the leading cause of the exhaustion that interferes with the ability of an agent to focus on the work before them. This leads to an overwhelming backload of work that once under a realtor may find daunting to overcome without losing valued clients in the process.** End Summary**

Search Engine Optimization and Ranking

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0500

Whether you are new to Internet marketing or a seasoned website developer, knowing how to effectively utilize linking campaigns, website submission, and unique content will have the greatest impact on the success of your website regardless of its purpose. You are probably already aware of these marketing tools but are not sure how to use them to your sites best advantage. In order to help you determine the most effective way to capitalize on each of these online merchandising utilities for increased website success, you need to know the what, how, and why information for them. So, what exactly is a Search Engine? How do they work? Why are they important to cater to? According to Dictionary.com, a search engine is a website whose primary function is gathering and reporting information available on the internet or a portion of the internet. There are basically two types of Internet search services: search engines and directories. A search engine site uses software spiders or web crawlers to index websites and retrieve the requested information. Google, AltaVista, Hotbot, Go.com, Excite and Web Crawler are examples of internet search engine services.** End Summary**