Web-surfers tend to access entertainment sites more frequently at work than they do at home.
He added the company was working hard to eradicate non-genuine users, many of whom aimed to extract money from web-surfers.
All this competition will ensure that home-grown sites keep innovating - while the deep pockets of both YouTube and MySpace will mean more choice for web-surfers.
The cannibalisation of higher-margin sales must be painful, but the reasoning is easy to understand: if the retailers do not undercut themselves, thousands of resourceful web-surfers will.
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It also has added to the company's clout because as a browser maker it can help define the kinds of new graphical features that can be used by sites across the Web as well as helping Google funnel Web surfers to its dominant Internet-search engine, the top driver of Google's revenue.
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This will become a rout as new Web middlemen, or "demand aggregators, " let solo Web surfers gang up into virtual buying co-ops. n Turning services into software.
On the Web, surfers too often give e-mailed rumors and unverified assertions the same weight as news from, say, The Washington Post website.
Until a year ago, most European web surfers had to pay twice for their internet access - a fee to their ISP and the cost of a local telephone call each time they logged on.
Atlanta-based Exploit Prevention Labs says criminals have been using Google's (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) AdWords program this month to snoop on Web surfers with the hopes of eventually breaking into their bank accounts.
Vicinity is planning to use its database of more than 4m physical businesses, which already helps web surfers find the nearest Levi's store or FedEx drop-off point, to allow retailers to transmit discount coupons to the cellphone of a consumer who happens to walk by and lure her into the store.
But the 56-kbps hookup should satisfy first-time surfers charmed by access to the vast library of the Web and by letters that arrive in a matter of minutes instead of days.
Amazon also removed an e-mail address included in a reader's review, which let Web surfers contact the reviewer directly.
Still, Firefox's advances have already had their intended effect: to present web surfers with a viable alternative to the monopoly, and thus to restart much-need innovation in browser technology, even by Microsoft itself.
"This additional level of protection when it comes to Safari users running Flash is good to see - as Adobe's software is so frequently exploited by malware authors and malicious hackers to infect web surfers, " said Graham Cluley, senior consultant at security firm Sophos in his blog.
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