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National Archives and Google have launched a pilot project to digitize and offer Historic Films Online for free. This agreement will enable researchers and the general public to access historic movies, documentaries and other films from the National Archives via Google Video as well as the National Archives website. [Read more]  [Read more]

Customer Satisfaction Index has improved 1.3% in 2005 and the aggregate score is 79.6, according to the annual American Customer Satisfaction Index eCommerce Report from ForeSee Results. [Read more]  [Read more]

Google has announced that it will continue building payment services for Google users and advertisers. Google is going to add payment functionality to Google services that can be accessed with Google Account. [Read more]  [Read more]

Online retail sales in 2005 have reached $86.3 billion, from $69.3 billion in 2004. Online sales accounted for 2.3% of all retail sales in 2005, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce reports. [Read more]  [Read more]

Yahoo Search Marketing is going to modify its editorial guidelines regarding the use of keywords containing trademarks. Yahoo! Search Marketing will stop allowing advertisers to bid on keywords containing competitor trademarks. [Read more]  [Read more]

Google has partnered with EarthLink in a bid to build a wireless network in San Francisco. The projected cost of the project is $15 million over 10 years. [Read more]  [Read more]

50% users are against companies turning over search queries to the government, according to a survey by the University of Connecticut. 65% were against the government monitoring internet search behaviors. [Read more]  [Read more]

The next generation voice equipment market has reached $2.5 billion in 2005, according to Infonetics Research. Infonetics predicts that the market will increase 175% and reach $6.2 billion by 2009. [Read more]  [Read more]

Google has launched Google Page Creator in beta. Google Page Creator allows Google account holders to create web pages and publish them to the web. [Read more]  [Read more]

Skype is offering online payment methods to its customers. Skype customers can now pay online through GlobalCollect International Payment Services and Click&Buy LLC. Customers can also approve payments through Paypal. [Read more]  [Read more]

Google is beta testing gmail for domains. Gmail for domains will be hosted by Google. Organizations can offer this webmail service to all their employees and each one will have 2 gigabytes of storage and search tools. [Read more]  [Read more]

Google has appointed Dr. Larry Brilliant as Executive Director of Google.org. Dr. Brilliant has worked in the fields of international health and he will work for Google’s philanthropic activities. [Read more]  [Read more]