CBS MarketWatch at a Glance ..................................................................................248 General Market Performance ...............................................................................250 Specific Industry Performance ..............................................................................250 Individual Security Performance ..........................................................................251 Summary .....................................................................................................................263

Weather.com at a Glance ...........................................................................................266 Desktop Weather ...................................................................................................278 Desktop Weather Platinum ...................................................................................278 Summary .....................................................................................................................280

Microsoft.com at a Glance .........................................................................................282 Summary .....................................................................................................................292

16: eBay Secrets ................................................................................295

eBay at a Glance .........................................................................................................296 Using Advanced Search Operators ......................................................................300 Using eBay s Search Page .....................................................................................300 Summary .....................................................................................................................318

Amazon.com at a Glance ...........................................................................................320 Distributors and Manufacturers ............................................................................322 Partner Retailers ....................................................................................................323 Amazon Merchants ...............................................................................................323 Listmania Lists .......................................................................................................335 So You d Like To. . . Guides ..................................................................................335 Coming Soon Lists .................................................................................................338 E-Mail Alerts ..........................................................................................................338 Amazon Marketplace ............................................................................................340 Pro-Merchants .......................................................................................................341 zShops ....................................................................................................................341 Amazon Auctions ...................................................................................................341 Chat ........................................................................................................................341

Discussion Boards ..................................................................................................342 Summary .....................................................................................................................343

Napster at a Glance ....................................................................................................346 Browsing for Music ................................................................................................349 Searching for Tracks ..............................................................................................350 Building a Playlist ..................................................................................................350 Listening to and Creating Mix Tapes ...................................................................351 Using Napster s Music Player to Stream Real-Time Music ................................352 Listening to Napster Radio ...................................................................................353 Share Songs via E-Mail .........................................................................................357 Communicate via Napster s Message Boards .....................................................358 iTunes .....................................................................................................................358 BuyMusic ................................................................................................................359 Musicmatch Downloads ........................................................................................359 eMusic ....................................................................................................................359 Rhapsody ................................................................................................................359 Summary .....................................................................................................................360

Expedia at a Glance ...................................................................................................362 Summary .....................................................................................................................369

MapQuest at a Glance ...............................................................................................372 Zoom In ..................................................................................................................375 Re-Center ...............................................................................................................375 Summary .....................................................................................................................381

Index ................................................................................................383

Here s something cool I bet you didn t know . . . That, in a nutshell, is what drove the creation of this book cool stuff you prob ably didn t know about your favorite Web sites. Secrets, for want of a better word. Five hundred and one of them.

What kind of secrets are included in 501 Web Site Secrets Well, there s parts of a site you didn t know existed. Or ways to use the site that you weren t aware of. Or special commands that help you get even more out of the site than you could before. Cool stuff like that and more. That s the nature of a secret something that most users don t know about, but would get a kick out of if they did. These are the kinds of things that will make you say to yourself, That s cool I didn t know you could do that! And then you ll want to go directly to the site to try the secret out for yourself. (Go ahead; it s allowed.) Of course, not all 501 secrets in this book will be new to you. If you re Internetsavvy at all, you ll probably know some of what I reveal in these pages. That s okay; it only means that you re on your toes. I m sure, however, that you ll find more than a few secrets you didn t know, and that they ll make this book a worthwhile read for you. To be fair, many of these secrets are hidden in plain sight. There are few secrets in this book that are deliberately concealed from the general public. Most socalled secrets are things that are there if you look for them and if you know where to look. You can discover lots of secrets on your own just by clicking all the links on all the pages of your favorite sites and poring over every single page of the site s help system. The sad fact is, most users never get beyond a site s home page and there aren t too many secrets there!

Using this book is as simple as turning to the chapter on a particular site, read ing through the secrets, then trying them on your own. You don t need any par ticular technical expertise to take advantage of these secrets, although some familiarity with the sites in question is helpful. There s no fancy programming, no high-level coding, just a lot of common-sense information that you probably didn t know before.