11.   Despite all the interest from advertisers, no city guide has consistently shown a profit.

12.   Frank Loui, owner of the Casket Wholesale Centre, has his business listed with Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch Inc., a Pasadena-based Internet city guide.

13.   For one, tracking all that information still requires people to input it, and many online city guides are less current than they suggest.

14.   Globopolis.com, a company in the Czech Republic that produces online city guides, is going out of business as the shakeout in Internet startups reaches into Eastern Europe.

15.   Globopolis was started last year, and had begun cooperating with a Western European city guide called Cityvox.com.

16.   In a city like New York, there are literally dozens of Internet city guides to choose from.

17.   In addition to New York, Vindigo offers city guides for Chicago, Washington, San Francisco and Boston.

18.   In addition to the city guides, Entertainment also offers books for Canadian destinations, Europe, and Australia.

19.   In fact, in each major city, CitySearch faces an average of eight competitors offering some form of city guide, Wester said.

20.   In November, WineBRATs will help Microsoft launch Sidewalk, its city guide on the Web for San Francisco.