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Bill Gates's incursion into the world of Web content is just one of several guides that are turning the Internet into real competition for local newspapers and city magazines across the country.

The big question: do these digital upstarts do anything that a magazine or paper doesn't do already? The short answer: yes. Sidewalk's database is not only vast but searchable and updated three times a day by about 12 full-time staffers and a crew of freelancers.

The Sidewalk team takes its journalism seriously. New York's executive producer, the service's equivalent to an editor in chief, is Eric Etheridge, the former editor of George magazine. Seattle Sidewalk poached its top editor, Jan Even, from the Seattle Weekly, where she was in charge of arts and entertainment coverage. Sidewalk does have some innovative features. It's the online transaction part of the business that's really likely to make things go.

Microsoft has said Sidewalk will not sell classified ads, the bread and butter of traditional newspapers. But Krasilovsky notes that it has promised no such thing for its other services. That's why he thinks Microsoft will continue to be a major threat to newspapers and alternative weeklies. About a dozen or so major players are fighting for at least some of that. But newspapers have been generally slow to protect those ad dollars by embracing the Web, said Mark Mooradian, an analyst with Jupiter Communications.

They have the brands. The good thing for Sidewalk is they have the opportunity to get up online with a compelling service before any of those people do.

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