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Job seekers favor newspaper classifieds

Saturday, December 31st, 2005

Despite the growing popularity of online classified ads, most job seekers continue to rely on the classified sections of print newspapers for the majority of their job searches. More than 75 percent of job seekers read listings in the print edition of their local newspapers, while 60 percent (including some of the print readers) go […]

Classified Ad Scam

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

Rachel Stanton, a 20-year-old student from Andover Township, almost found herself with a real lump of coal in her stocking this holiday season — the loss of nearly $900 after almost having fallen victim to a nationwide fraud scheme.
Stanton responded to a classified ad in The New Jersey Herald earlier this month advertising a secret […]

Dead bodies populate AutoTrader ads

Saturday, December 17th, 2005

At first glance it looks like a standard AutoTrader classified ad page, but a closer look reveals that the featured cars have broken windshields and dead bodies on the bonnet in a ‘Don’t drink and drive’ campaign by JWT.
The ads, created especially as part of an AutoTrader “don’t drink and drive” campaign, have been designed […]

Google Adwords Gambling

Thursday, December 15th, 2005

An AdWords Experiment Shows Why at Google, the House Always Wins.
Google is in the news everywhere lately. They are filching executives from Microsoft, and Microsoft is conveniently forgetting how Redmond did the same and worse to Borland. Google is scanning the world’s books, and the world’s authors aren’t all pleased about that. But this column […]

Dot.com Classified Boom

Monday, December 12th, 2005

Starting as a series of jitters at the end of March 2000, the dotcom slump turned into a full-blown panic on 14 April 2000, when America’s NASDAQ - the index of hi-tech stocks - crashed through the floor.
But websites are again now changing hands for large sums in an apparent revival of dotcom fever. The […]

Daily Mail buys property website

Sunday, December 11th, 2005

Publisher Daily Mail & General Trust has bought Fastcrop, the owner of property website Primelocation.com, for £48m ($83m).
The website advertises 200,000 residential and commercial properties in the UK and abroad and attracts 850,000 visitors each month.
Daily Mail said the deal was part of its drive to boost its positions in key areas of the online […]

Brand New Website for Auto, Motorcycle, Boat, Truck and Other Vehicles in Spanish and English

Sunday, December 11th, 2005

Press Release
www.ParaCoche.com starts Global Operations today. This very affordable bilingual English and Spanish Vehicle Listings Website is now available to dealers and individuals looking to sell or buy vehicles.
Online classified, for the first time, have surpassed newspapers in used car sales, according to research by J.D. Power and Associates. Online classified ad sites have accounted […]