For surfing the web over the telephone, software called a voice browser is required to allow callers to navigate and access data on web pages that have been adapted for voice recognition.

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The World Wide Web, the leading information retrieval service of the Internet, now permits millions of American voters to access data about issues and candidates, allows politicians to create their own web pages for further dissemination of information, offers information on campaign contributions, and even includes "push technology, " whereby Internet users can customize the type of information they receive from Web sources.

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