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[I]n the meantime, a plucky little Boston-based operation called Gamesville showed that it was possible to make money with ad-supported games on the net. Gamesville offers online Bingo; registered members win cash prizes when the play. Essentially, Gamesville shares a portion of its advertising revenues with its customers. It has attracted 1.6m registered users, as reported in the Journal it is one of the "stickiest" sites on the web (meaning people stay on the site for long periods of time), and it has operated in the black since the fourth quarter of 1997. It's one of a handful of profitable Internet companies--and one of an even smaller handful of profitable online operations.
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