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29 November 2004 -- By REUBEN SCHWARZ -- stuff.co.nz

Online business MotorWeb hopes to tackle the latter challenge with the launch mid next year of an innovative web-based service.

It will capture sales data from across the second-hand dealer market and provide "data mining features" to let dealers track car sales and compare them against national statistics.

MotorWeb, based in Auckland, New Zealand, currently hosts software that lets car dealers and consumers carry out vehicle history checks and transfer ownership online.

The data mining tools will let traders analyse their sales data, using transaction records kept by MotorWeb, and check their sales volumes and sale prices for particular types of vehicles against national statistics.

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