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Sponsor Your Site
Increase your internet presence, increase
brand awareness, increase traffic and increase profit. Sponsor Listings is a
fee-based service that allows commercial sites to receive enhanced placement in
certain commercial categories in the directory.
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Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is an
American electronic commerce (e-commerce) company in Seattle, Washington. Amazon
was one of the first major companies to sell goods by Internet, and was an
iconic "stock in which to invest" of the late 1990s dot-com bubble. After the
collapse, the public became skeptical about Amazon's business model, yet, it
still turned an annual profit in 2003.
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Download.com
Download.com is an Internet download
directory website, launched in 1996 as a part of CNET. Download.com offers
content in four major categories: Software (including PC, Mac, and mobile),
Music, Games, and Videos, offered for download via FTP from Download.com's
servers or third-party servers. Videos are streams (at present) and music is all
free MP3 downloads, or occasionally rights-managed WMAs or streams.
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Craigslist
Craigslist is a central network of online
communities, featuring free classified advertisements (with jobs, internships,
housing, personals, erotic services, for sale/barter/wanted, services,
community, gigs, resume, and pets categories) and forums on various topics.
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Digg
Digg is a website made for people to
discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet, by submitting links
and stories, and voting and commenting on submitted links and stories, in a
social and democratic spirit. Voting stories up and down is the site's
cornerstone function, respectively called digging and burying. Many stories get
submitted every day, but only the most digged ones appear on the front page.
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eBay
eBay Inc. is an American Internet company
that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping Web site in which people
and businesses buy and sell goods and services worldwide. In addition to its
original U.S. Web site, eBay has established localized Web sites in thirty other
countries. eBay Inc also owns PayPal, Skype, StubHub, and other businesses.
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Facebook
Facebook (branded as "facebook") is a
social networking website launched on February 4, 2004. The free-access website
is privately owned and operated by Facebook, Inc. Users can join networks
organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with
other people. People can also add friends and send them messages, and update
their personal profile to notify friends about themselves. The website's name
refers to the paper facebooks depicting members of a campus community that some
American colleges and preparatory schools give to incoming students, faculty,
and staff as a way to get to know other people on campus.
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Flickr
Flickr is an image and video hosting
website, web services suite, and online community platform. It was one of the
earliest Web 2.0 applications. In addition to being a popular Web site for users
to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo
repository. Its popularity has been fueled by its organization tools, which
allow photos to be tagged and browsed by folksonomic means. As of November 2007,
it hosts more than two billion images.
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GameSpot
GameSpot is a video gaming website that
provides news, reviews, previews, downloads, and other information. The site was
launched in May 1996 by Pete Deemer and Vince Broady. It was purchased by ZDNet,
a brand which was later purchased by CNET Networks, the current owner of
GameSpot. GameSpot.com is currently one of the 200 highest-trafficked websites
according to Alexa.
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Internet Movie Database
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an
online database of information related to movies, actors, television shows,
production crew personnel, and video games. IMDb launched on October 17, 1990,
and in 1998 was acquired by Amazon.com.
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MySpace
MySpace is a popular social networking
website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal
profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos for teenagers and adults
internationally. Its headquarters are in Beverly Hills, California, USA, where
it shares an office building with its immediate owner, Fox Interactive Media;
which is owned by News Corporation, which has its headquarters in New York City.
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The Weather Channel
The Weather Channel (also TWC) is a
commercially-sponsored U.S. cable and satellite television network that
broadcasts weather forecasts and weather-related news 24 hours a day. In
addition to its cable TV programming, TWC also provides forecasts for
terrestrial and satellite radio stations, newspapers, and websites, and
maintains an extensive online presence at weather.com.
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Google search
Google search is a Web search engine owned
by Google, Inc., and it is the most used search engine on the Web. Google
receives several hundred million queries each day through its various services.
The domain google.com attracted at least 1.643 billion visitors annually by 2008
according to a Compete.com survey.
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Open Directory Project
The Open Directory Project (ODP), also
known as dmoz (from directory.mozilla.org, its original domain name), is a
multilingual open content directory of World Wide Web links owned by Netscape
that is constructed and maintained by a community of volunteer editors. ODP uses
a hierarchical ontology scheme for organizing site listings. Listings on a
similar topic are grouped into categories, which can then include smaller
categories.
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Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free, multilingual, open
content encyclopedia project operated by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.
Its name is a blend of the words wiki (a technology for creating collaborative
websites) and encyclopedia. Launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, it
is the largest, fastest-growing and most popular general reference work
currently available on the Internet.
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Yahoo! Directory
The Yahoo! Directory is a web directory
which rivals the Open Directory Project in size. The directory was Yahoo!'s
first offering. When Yahoo! changed to crawler-based listings for its main
results in October 2002, the human-edited directory's significance dropped, but
it is still being updated. The Yahoo! Directory offers two options for
suggesting websites for possible listing: "Standard", which is free, and a paid
submission process that offers expedited review. Payment is required when
suggesting a commercial site.
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YouTube
YouTube is a video sharing website where
users can upload, view and share video clips. YouTube was created in
mid-February 2005 by three former PayPal employees. The San Bruno-based service
uses Adobe Flash technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video
content, including movie clips, TV clips and music videos, as well as amateur
content such as videoblogging and short original videos. In October 2006, Google
Inc. announced that it had reached a deal to acquire the company for US$1.65
billion in Google stock. The deal closed on November 13, 2006.
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