What do you mean by web services?
If you see the internet it by means of web provides you a vast services where most of them are of free of cost to you.
1. Indexing: A site which provides links of important sites. Yahoo initially started as a site that has links to good internet sites providing nice information. A link providing site is termed as Index site.
Yahoo 2. Mail Service: Google mail, Yahoo mail, Lycos mail, hot mail etc are providing you email service free of cost.
Google MailYahoo mailHotMailRediffMailSifyLycosMail
3. Search Engine: Again Google, Yahoo, Dog Pile, Alta Vista, Lycos provides your search results.
GoogleYahooDog PileAlta Vista (best for pictures)
Lycos (best for American updates)
4. Social Network: Sites like Orkut, Face Box, Hi5, provides you with Chatting, Online dating, Friendship and sharing.
Aglocohttp://www.orkut.com
http://www.facebox.com
http://zorpia.com
http://www.hi5.com
http://minglebox.com( specially for students)
http://bharatstudent.com( specially for students)
5. Application service: Application service is those which provide new way to sell and distribute software and software related service through Internet. E.g.: web hosting company like Verio and webhosting.com
http://squarebrothers.com
http://manashosting.com
http://webhosting.com
6. E-Commerce: It’s an electronic way to activate commercial things such as order, selling, purchasing at online. It has advantage such as helps customers by cost and price reduction and suppliers by eliminating intermediaries in selling. E.g. eBay, Amazon,
http://ebay.com
http://www.amazon.com
7. Job-Engine: This provides service like placing the job vacancy online and in turn get the applicant resume and forward that to the recruiters. E.g. Times Job, Naukri, Monster,
http://timesjob.com
http://www.naukri.com
http://monster.com
8. Matrimony: These sites provide the information of the alliance and in turn get you the preference partner’s profile. E.g.: Bharat Matrimony, Simply Marry.
http://www.bharatmatrimony.com
http://simplymarry.com
http://jeevanshakthi.com
So, how do these sites gain money for their service they do? Wonder?
It can be in 3 ways in most situations:
1. Advertisements like Google ad sense, Abrite and so on.
2. Membership upgrade for more services.
3. Selling service or get paid from one side for their service and free to other end.
http://www.google.com/adsense
http://abrite.com
So now you would have understood the e-commerce advantage?
1. It helps the customers by cost and price reduction.
2. It helps the suppliers by eliminating intermediaries in selling.
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