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Google “pages from the” Affiliate Opportunity

A bigmouthmedia reporter investigates whether Google's choice to display pages from only one region in search results could sometimes be less than ideal and how affiliates could take advantage of this.

.tel Top Level Domain Launched

A new top level domain extension was launched yesterday. The extension .tel is slightly different from other extensions in that it is designed to be used as a facility for keeping contact details on the actual Domain Name Server.

Google's top searches down under precede year-end Zeitgeist

Google releases the year's most popular searches in New Zealand and Australia, as anticipation builds up for its global end of year Zeitgeist.

Yahoo! searchers choose Britney over Obama

Yahoo! reveals the top searches for 2008. Britney beats Obama, and while Palin takes on McCain, she might not have counted on Jolie jumping in.

Windows market share drops below 90% for the first time in 2 years

New statistics from Net Applications show that the percentage of Windows users dropped below 90 per cent for the first time in 2 years last month.

ArenaFest to show online live social networking service

ArenaFest have launched a new live social networking service, offering a wide range of live events to its members.

Online spending up 1% on 'Black Friday'

Consumer spending rose one per cent on Black Friday, the traditional kick-off to the US festive shopping season.

Baidu staff members sacked over paid listings

Baidu has come under the media spotlight in China after unlicensed and expensive medical practices have been buying high ranking paid listings

Twitter clones litter the web

Twitter has proved itself to be one of the most popular sites for people to keep in contact with each other and if proof was needed it can be found in the number of copycat sites available