1. Headline: "Comspace Features 8,000 Listings in 13 Major Markets" Primarily a leasing listing service, Comspace will soon have information on 27 metropolitan markets. Search engine allows the visitor to look for space by street, square footage or a variety of other criteria. Site uses Java to add graphical interest.

2. New and Notable. Colliers Auguste-Thouard covers all of France and has excellent market information. The BigBook, "a whole new kind of yellow pages," creates beautiful maps on the fly and highlights the future capability of adding geographical features to real estate web sites. Find these two sites using Text Search ("Auguste*" and "BigBook").

3. IRED Recognizes PikeNet. IRED (www.ired.com), Becky Swan's granddaddy real estate directory of them all, recognized PikeNet as a Top 10 Site for the month of April. Oriented toward the residential side of the real estate industry, IRED is an extraordinary resource of news and information. Lead by columnist Brad Inman, IRED generates over 20 excellent articles a day covering financial trends, environmental news and legislation affecting our business.

4. Search Engines. PikeNet is now in listed in Yahoo. Search for the word "PikeNet" and you'll only get one hit--us! We are also in (or will be shortly) five other major search engines_InfoSeek, Excite, Alta Vista, Lycos and Web Crawler.

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