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March 19, 2010 by Kaila Krayewski
It’s easy to become overwhelmed on your average dating website: there are thousands upon thousands of profiles to view. So, along comes OneGuyOneGirl.com. This is a site that simplifies the task of finding your perfect match. It does this by featuring just what its name implies: one guy and one girl per day.
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March 19, 2010 by Kaila Krayewski
News sources that are linked to search engines, like Yahoo News, are beating out established online news broadcast sites like CNN.com. This was the finding by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, which produced a State of the Media report.
The study looked at 2,200 online news consumers between December 28, 2009, and January 19, [...]
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March 19, 2010 by Kaila Krayewski
Who might have guessed that one of the web’s more convenient features – the ability to shorten extensively long URLs into just a few characters – is actually making the internet slower?
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March 18, 2010 by Kaila Krayewski
It’s been an ongoing battle since January, but now it may really be happening: the climax of the Google China drama may be approaching.
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March 11, 2010 by Tariq Ali
Motorola Inc. today announced a deal with Microsoft Corp under which it will use Microsoft’s Bing search and maps on Motorola’s new Android based smart phones in China.
Motorola has been trying to enter the Chinese cellphone market and relying on Google’s Android operating system. Because of Google’s threat to exit China, Motorola wanted to look [...]
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March 11, 2010 by Kaila Krayewski
What makes people look up certain search terms over others? Turns out that word-of-mouth is a much bigger influencer than traditional forms of advertising, and this is even more so true for social media users. These findings came out of a recent survey conducted by BIGresearch, for the Retail Advertising and Marketing Association (RAMA), and were reported by e-Marketer.
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