1.   The company is currently operating eight sites and has just moved to a new office in South Normanton, Derbyshire.

2.   Although the site is operated by a life insurance company, it says that users will only get marketing pitches if you check a box asking for materials.

3.   An unusual aspect of this arrangement is that Global will operate several sites that will appear to consumers to be direct competitors of each other.

4.   Both of the two heavyweights in the test-preparation business, the Princeton Review and Kaplan Educational Centers Inc., operate free sites on the Web.

5.   A World Wide Web site operated by Chelekis, www.hot-stocks.com, appeared to be operating Tuesday afternoon.

6.   Chu, and those who operate similar sites, said those kinds of hassles will have no effect on the permanence of the tribute.

7.   CFN also operates a site for individual users that offers similar services called Youdecide.com.

8.   Coincidentally, both sites are operated by Kinks fans living in Massachusetts.

9.   Estimating the proportion of downloads by readers who are paying required some finesse, said William Thornton, who operates the site.

10.   He makes his money by operating the site and charging the members for services like the designing of Web sites.