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Web Shopping for the Very Impatient

Harry McCracken orders videos and vittles over the Internet and has them on his doorstep in less than an hour.

  

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Search Engine Sleeper: Who has the biggest, quickest index on the Web? Nope, not Yahoo or AltaVista. A site called Fast Search claims to be the winner, with more than 300 million pages cataloged on superfast servers. And based on its lickety-split, exhaustive responses to my search queries, I believe it... Well-Armed Octopus: Information junkies will be intrigued by Octopus.com, a new site that lets you drag and drop snippets of information from numerous sources (including PCWorld.com) into customized personal pages. The beta version I tried was still a bit rough around the edges, but promising... E-Mail for YoYos: If you sign up for YoYoMail, you'll get an in-box full of animated ads--and a nickel for each one you watch. In theory, the big bucks come when you collect commissions on friends who join up. My take: Friends don't ask friends to stare at spam.

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