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There are millions of local businesses who still do not have web sites. Meanwhile, local customers are going online in growing numbers to search for products and services in their area. In fact, in a recent report there are over 1 billions searches each month with a local intent.

Do you have a web site that is connecting with these potential new customers? If not, you are losing out on an excellent opportunity to increase the profits of your business. In fact, without a site, you may find your market share is eroding.

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Dotcom-Monitor Adds Video Streaming Monitoring Service

Plymouth, MN – (12/10/2007) – Dotcom-Monitor, the leader and innovator in advanced website monitoring services, announces real-time video stream functionality monitoring, a new option for its innovative and indispensable website monitoring service.

Dotcom-Monitor, a leading

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(Best Syndication) Microsoft and Viacom have reached an agreement that will place Microsoft ads on Viacom websites including MTV, Comedy Central, BET and Paramount Pictures. But the deal is bigger than that. Viacom will also provide Microsoft with content for distribution.

Both companies have been battling Internet giant Google in separate ways. Microsoft lags behind Google and Yahoo in advertising and Viacom has filed a $1 billion dollar lawsuit over copyright infringement on Google’s YouTube site. Both Microsoft and Viacom are struggling to profit from the Internet, while Google generates more revenue than either from the new media.

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It's been more than a decade now that we are accusing the online world. Online shops, e-shops, web-shops and online stores are actually the places where you can shop using the World Wide Web. Going by definition, Online Shopping is a process where shoppers purchase products or services over the Internet. The place where you can get a whole lot of products is referred to as a virtual shopping store.

Sellers from all over the world, both national and international, sell their respective products. Consumers find their desired product by surfing through Internet and then payment is done. Online buyers basically use their credit cards to buy particular products. Also Debit cards, cheque and wire transfers are used as alternative means of payment. Well, generally we are in a hurry; we want to shop without wasting any time, so here you go. The internet is the answer to your daily dose of shopping.

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Festive season is just around the corner and shopping portals are witnessing a large number of users buying gifts and products. Today, online shopping is a buzzword and it is the consumers who have created this aura. Online shopping is not synonymous with harried last minute shopping for those who have no time. Now, it is more in sync with detailed research, discounts and hefty Cash backs that are influencing the common man.

Cashing in on the growing number of online shoppers, many portals are readying themselves for increased traffic with a series of offerings to the buyers. Consumers are not wary of ordering luxury and high-priced items like electronics or jewellery online. Even highly personalized merchandise like clothes are selling like hot cakes at these online stores!

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(Best Syndication) For years the free encyclopedia, Wikipedia, has been moving up the ranks in the search results, but now Google is working on their own encyclopedia project. Project “Knol” is a collection of encyclopedia-like articles written by experts in various fields.

Google says that they hope that opinions will be included in the knols. Udi Manber says “We hope that knols will include the opinions and points of view of the authors who will put their reputation on the line. Anyone will be free to write. For many topics, there will likely be competing knols on the same subject. Competition of ideas is a good thing.”

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