Services such as Google's AdSense, which places text advertisements on blogs and generates a few cents per mouse click, might bring in some spare change.

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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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It offers subscribers 217 free text messages and 43 free minutes of voice calls per month as long as they agree to receive six advertisements by text message every day.

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The level of claims has risen as the result of claims management companies, which have used television advertisements and text messages to drum up business.

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Several shops here sell items like vintage postcards featuring 1950s-style Coca Cola and Brylcreem advertisements with Thai text.

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Singer weaves that history through drawings, photographs, residents' letters, travel writing, newspaper advertisements, his own text and even a 1932 menu from the Strand Hotel.

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