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25 ^th Jun 2007

One Engine is Not Enough! Study by InfoSpace Reveals Vastly Different Results from Top Search Engines

infoSpace Inc. a leading developer of proprietary metasearch technologies, today unveiled the results from a study that evaluated search results from the four leading search engines. With search engines producing such differing results, the study illustrates the value of metasearch and Dogpile.com, which returns the top results from each of these leading search engines to provide users with the most relevant and useful information.

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30 ^th Jul 2007

Ask.com to offer privacy control

Search engine Ask.com has announced it will be introducing a new service called AskEraser, enabling users to ensure that Ask.com does not retain their search histories. Once rolled out, the feature will make Ask.com the only search engine which gives users the option of preventing retention of their search data at the time of their search, as opposed to contacting the search engine company after the fact and attempting to have the data expunged.

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22 ^nd Jun 2007

Online Marketing 2007 Survey Reveals Dramatic Increase in Online Spend

Commitment to online marketing spend has increased dramatically over the past year, according to the results of a survey carried out by the Online Marketing show (OMS), which takes place at the Business Design Centre, London on 26th - 27th June.

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22 ^nd Jun 2007

UK leads the way for European online ad spending

Online advertising spending within the 13 countries of the IAB Europe network was Eur8.003 billion ($10.08 billion) in 2006, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Europe's "Pan-European Online Advertising Spend" study, analyzed by PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

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30 ^th Jul 2007

Google plans search service for mobile content

Google Inc. is developing a new search service for cellphones that will help consumers find and buy ringtones, games and other mobile content as the Internet company pushes more deeply into wireless, people familiar with the matter say. Google already offers cellphone users a version of its popular engine for searching the Web. Now the company wants to go beyond just looking up Web pages, effectively becoming a gateway for finding and paying for mobile media content.

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