The Walt Disney Company has bought 43% of Infoseek, the Internet search engine and directory service.

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Google is also pulling in more small business advertisers by making it simpler for firms like ReachLocal, a marketing service, and directory producer R.

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Kayak offers a flight tracker, a price alert notification service, an airline directory, baggage-fee directory and airport information.

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Sales through the group's stores rose 18%, helped by 10% extra floor space, while sales at the Next Directory mail order service were ahead by 5%.

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Improves Apple File Service performance, especially when using a home directory hosted on an AFP server.

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Many people will use directory inquiries too seldom to find out which service is the best value for money.

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Magedson says he is now in talks with several major credit card companies to market the service to their merchants, as well as four major auto related companies to put their dealers into the Verified directory.

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