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The major PPC search engines jumped quickly onto the local search market and added this feature to their programs in 2004.
The two largest, Google and Yahoo, added this component early in 2004, but have made major changes since then.
Due to the strength of the local search market potential, partnerships made, acquisitions by other companies, and [...]

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Some websites have offered a local component since the later part of the 1990s, but these have been mainly comparison shopping sites and directory-style sites.
Their efforts may not have been perfect, but they realized the importance of local search before most other search engines did.
It really wasn’t until research conducted by the highly regarded Kelsey [...]

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The Internet was created in the 1960s as a means of linking a variety of governmental informational sites with the vast academic network of libraries, researchers, and academic institutions.

The initial 1969 network (called ARPANET) that eventually evolved into the Internet was a collaborative effort Commissioned by the United States Department of Defense and involved [...]

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As the web became more commercialized, various forms of advertising were developed. One of the first was the “banner ad,” which was clearly visible and easily understood.

It was often presented as being just like a billboard, but with the added advantage of people across the globe being able to view it.

Another form of advertising [...]

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