Last week, Internet Brands , the company behind the popular auto Web site CarsDirect.com, unveiled a house-valuation tool on its RealEstateABC.com site.

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In fact, only about a quarter of folks do, according to Philip Reed of Edmunds.com, an auto information Web site.

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The biggest change for dealers is shoppers armed with research culled from auto advice Web sites like Consumer Reports, Edmunds or Kelley Blue Book.

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Cerrone contracts with four auto-referral Web sites, like Autobytel.com, which send her several hundred leads every month.

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The technology represents a major leap from the configurators found on auto-buying Web sites, which let a customer pick colors and price certain options.

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Google has restricted the presence of The Pirate Bay's (TPB) web pages in its auto-complete search facility.

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Here Andrew Field, a former owner of an auto-repair-shop, runs a hypergrowth web business with a national clientele.

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Maybe so, but it's also tangled in a web of red tape that's frustrating auto dealers.

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CDNow, as many cars as Auto-by-Tel, and so on through most of the big Web retail categories.

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Organizations can ship a Chromebook straight to an end user and auto-enroll and provision their network settings, apps and other policies the first time they log into the Web.

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