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AOL Buys Two Local Online Media Companies
AOL has acquired two local online media companies Patch Media Corp. and Going Inc. in an effort to further build on its…
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EU Calls On US To End Online Gambling Ban
The European Commission has released a report that finds U.S. laws on Internet gambling are not legally justified and discriminate against foreign Internet gambling operators.
VideoSurf Claims Next Level of Video Search Relevancy
VideoSurf is a video search engine I've written about in the past. Today, the company unveiled its latest release. Webproworld received an email from them, and a spokesperson tells us, "VideoSurf is taking video search to the next level." He mentioned the following highlights:
Online Ads Contribute $300 Billion To U.S. Economy
Online advertising contributes $300 billion to the U.S. economy, according to a new study by the Interactive Advertising Bureau. The ad supported Internet accounts for 2.1 percent of the total U.S. gross domestic product. It directly employs more than 1.2 million Americans with above-average wages in jobs that did not exist two decades ago, and another 1.9 million people work to support those with Internet-related…
Local Content Popular With Mobile Users
The number of people looking for local information on a mobile device grew 51 percent from March 2008 to March 2009, according to comScore. The mobile browser is the most popular access method for finding local information, with 20.7 million users in March 2009, up 34 percent over a year ago. The strongest growth in the category is coming from downloaded applications, which grew 83…
Does Google Recognize the Name of Your Business?
People misspell their search engine queries all the time. That is why it can be incredibly helpful when Google steps and offers "did you mean suggestions." Google actually offers a few different spell-check features in its search results. These come with the internal codenames: "Did you mean," "Chameleon" (mid-page suggestions), and "Spellmeleon," where a couple results are shown for the corrected query.
