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Awareness set  list of brands thought of as a potential solution.
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Banner ads  ads the consumer encounters on the Internet while visiting general information, search, and entertainment sites.
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Bots  software “robots” that do the searching for users.
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Consideration set  those brands or products one will evaluate for the solution of a particular consumer problem.
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Evoked set  those brands or products one will evaluate for the solution of a particular consumer problem.
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External search  occurs when the search process is focused on external information relevant to solving the problem.
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Home page  a website developed and maintained by a firm (or other organization or individual) that provides product and company data (or independent data from government and private sources).
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Inept set  brands that are actively disliked or avoided by the consumer.
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Inert set  brands of which the consumer is aware but basically indifferent toward.
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Internal search  occurs once a problem is recognized and relevant information from long-term memory is used to determine if a satisfactory solution is known, what the characteristics of potential solutions are, what are appropriate way to compare solutions, and so forth.
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Internet presence site (IPS)  a website developed and maintained by a firm (or other organization or individual) that provides product and company data (or independent data from government and private sources).
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Ongoing search  done both to acquire information for possible later use and because the process itself is pleasurable.
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Perceived risk  a function of the individual, the product, and the situation.
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