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Article: Sarasota, Fla., Entrepreneur Plans to Simplify Web Surfing.
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- July 14, 1999
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Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 13 -- SARASOTA, Fla. -- The Internet has plenty of places that look like online flea markets, entrepreneur Stewart Ogilby says.
What surfers want, he thinks, is a place to find interesting sites without being bombarded with ads and other distractions.
A place such as his Big Eye (www.bigeye.com), which he hopes will be a portal that stands out from a growing field of sites that want to be the first page surfers see when they go online.
"I'm not sure there is a portal market," said Ogilby, 66, who got into computers and the Internet because of a promise to his granddaughter. "I think there's a ...