"In a typical month, surfers plunk down $640,000. Because players make more bets per hour than they would at Caesar's Palace, they literally lose money to the house twice as fast...Every week about 2 million players ante up at more than 1,800 virtual casinos...$3.5 billion will be lost on Internet bets this year, about three times the revenue of porn sites."

"Those who actually buy a car online...account for a scant 4.1 percent of the U.S. auto market...Nearly two thirds of car buyers now begin shopping with the click of a mouse, up from just one quarter four years ago."