Television, magazine, and internet advertisements are just a few of the vehicles available to educate consumers on the benefits or detriments of a particular product.

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Knowing that most small business people would rather watch TV than log on to the Internet, Ma secured advertisements for Taobao on major TV channels.

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The rest said they relied on advertisements, the internet, media coverage and the like.

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Why not, thought Alliance founders Robert Zhang and Mark Baldwin, post job advertisements on the Internet?

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Google's ability to place small, targeted text advertisements next to internet-search results, and on other websites, meant that many of the business models thought to have been killed by the dotcom bust now rose from the grave.

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The Tories' internet chief Rishi Saha told prospective MPs to use Google to pay to have advertisements for their campaigns appear on internet search engine Google when people search for schools or other landmarks in their constituency.

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Other Internet sites already compete with the advertisements that Indian families place in the newspapers, requesting fair-skinned, slender, domesticated, convent-educated Brahmin girls in their early 20s for their 30-something, tall engineer sons with a five-figure salary.

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On April 10, the struggling Internet portal said it was testing a partnership to allow Google to host a small percentage of its search advertisements for two weeks.

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Advertisements similar to this have been running on broadcast outlets for several months and are posted on the Internet as well.

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