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24% of Rural Americans Have High-Speed Internet Connections
24% of adult rural Americans went online at home with high-speed internet connections compared with 39% of adults in urban and suburban areas, according to Pew Internet and American Life Project Survey. [Read more] [Read more]
Yahoo Adds Links to Wikipedia
Yahoo has added links to Wikipedia on their search results page. When a user performs a search on Yahoo, a Wikipedia result is found on the search results page. [Read more] [Read more]
MSN adCenter to Increase Traffic by 70%
MSN adCenter is going to increase traffic on ad impressions by 70%. The increase will come into effect from February 27, 2006. [Read more] [Read more]
Google Offers Widgets for Mac OS X
Google is offering widgets for Mac OS X Tiger. The widgets are Blogger Widget, Gmail Widget and Search History Widget. [Read more] [Read more]
39 Million Homes without Internet Access
39 million homes in the US are without internet access, according to a survey by Park Associates. They predict that the growth in overall internet penetration will increase from 63% to 64% by the end of 2006. [Read more] [Read more]
Google to Host Analyst Day Meeting
Google is going to host an Analyst Day meeting. The meeting will contain presentations by Google’s management team. [Read more] [Read more]
National Archives and Google to Offer Historic Films Online
National Archives and Google have launched a pilot project to digitize and offer Historic Films Online for free. This agreement will enable researchers and the general public to access historic movies, documentaries and other films from the National Archives via Google Video as well as the National Archives website. [Read more] [Read more]
Customer Satisfaction Index Improves 1.3%
Customer Satisfaction Index has improved 1.3% in 2005 and the aggregate score is 79.6, according to the annual American Customer Satisfaction Index eCommerce Report from ForeSee Results. [Read more] [Read more]
Google to Add Payment Functionality to Google Services
Google has announced that it will continue building payment services for Google users and advertisers. Google is going to add payment functionality to Google services that can be accessed with Google Account. [Read more] [Read more]
Online Retail Sales Reach $86.3 billion
Online retail sales in 2005 have reached $86.3 billion, from $69.3 billion in 2004. Online sales accounted for 2.3% of all retail sales in 2005, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce reports. [Read more] [Read more]
Yahoo Search Marketing to Stop Bidding on Keywords
Yahoo Search Marketing is going to modify its editorial guidelines regarding the use of keywords containing trademarks. Yahoo! Search Marketing will stop allowing advertisers to bid on keywords containing competitor trademarks. [Read more] [Read more]
Google Partners with EarthLink for San Francisco Wi-Fi
Google has partnered with EarthLink in a bid to build a wireless network in San Francisco. The projected cost of the project is $15 million over 10 years. [Read more] [Read more]
