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Attracting Web Hosting Customers by City
Web hosting companies are constantly on the lookout to find new ways to attract visitors to their websites. One avenue that many web hosts miss is targeting visitors who are searching for web hosting by city, such as New York Web Hosting, by state, such ...

Top Ten Ways to Bring Repeat Visitors Back to your Web Site
Bring those visitors back for more, applauding you and sayingBRAVO! They will create a buzz about your great site,bookmark it, and send you many new visitors. These visitors areyour personal marketing force. Give them reasons to return!Like myself, you ...

Web Templates for Company or Commercial Use
Businesses that are trying to reach the maximum number of customers possible, can only do it with a site that is ;clean ;, easy to navigate, and presents the essentials of the company. But if professional designers aren’t in your budget, there is an ...


Effectiveness of Web Hosting Directories (WHDs)
 
John is very happy today, for the first time in his life he has created his very own website. Now he is looking for a web host so that he can put his identity on the net. Casually he asks his friend Mac about it. Mac tells him that web-hosting directories are the best place to look for a web host. Getting curious John then asks Mac what exactly a Web Hosting Directory is. Mac responds that web hosting directories are a web hosting marketplace where prospective hosts list their products, plans, prices and other important information so that according to their requirements, customers can choose a suitable plan. Along with the details, it also contains web hosts ranking. John is now extremely happy as his dream is finally going to come to fruition. Like John, there are many beginners who are in search of a reliable web host and come across web hosting directories. Here a new question arises: Are these web hosting directories really trustworthy sources for novices like John? !

To find an answer it's very important to understand the working of WHDs.

Basically web-hosting directories are of two types: paid WHDs and free WHDs. For paid directories, either web hosts pay a set amount for placing their banners on the site, or they pay commission if they get customers via that medium. On the other hand, free WHDs like www.askwebhosting.com and web hosts list their services without paying any fees.

Some people believe that paid WHDs are very easy to manipulate as the ranking of web hosts can be changed in unfair ways. Others have the view that WHDs that are actually free reflect the true ranking of web hosts companies. Whatever the case may be, paid or free, people should believe the web hosts rankings only if they are based completely on votes of customers who have actually given their remarks and have left their website address as well.

It is not possible for any web hosting company to have 100% positive reviews. It is also observed that at times customers who are satisfied with their web host forget to express their opinion about that host. However, a biased customer who is not satisfied with their web host does not forget to mention their opinion of that web host. This implies that a negative review doesn't always reflect the true picture of a web host company.

No doubt web hosting directories are very useful if the newbie like John wants to compare prices and features of different companies. But, when it comes to choosing a web host he/she should make an intelligent choice by referring to other resource sites (forums etc.) as well.

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Bloomberg

Internet Fury Spurs Komen Reversal
Bloomberg
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc., riding a powerful wave of Internet indignation, raised $3 million in reaction to Susan G. Komen for the Cure's decision, reversed yesterday, to end its grants. The dispute between Planned Parenthood and ...
Planned Parenthood Replaces Lost Komen Grant in Internet PushSan Francisco Chronicle
Susan G. Koman for the Cure reverses decision to end grants to Planned Parenthoodabc13.com
Planned Parenthood Raises $3 Million As Komen Continues To Deal With FalloutGothamist
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USA TODAY

UK: Hacked phone call with FBI poses no risk
USA TODAY
Anonymous published the roughly 15-minute-long recording of the call on the Internet on Friday, gloating in a Twitter message that "the FBI might be curious how we're able to continuously read their internal comms for some time now.
Internet expert: Cyber threats more perception that realityKVUE
Hackers intercept FBI, UK police callCBS News

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New York Daily News

Gamers ignore corpse in Internet cafe
CNET
He died while gaming in an Internet cafe. And, well, according to news agency AFP, no one realized for up to nine hours. AFP has it that the young gentleman was identified as mortified by a waitress who must have wondered why he'd been sitting there ...
Gamer Dies At Web Cafe - But No-One NoticesSky News
Corpse of League of Legends player ignored at Internet cafe for nine hoursNew York Daily News
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FordDirect and Ford Motor Company Name Ford, Lincoln Internet Dealers of the Year
MarketWatch (press release)
4, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- FordDirect and Ford Motor Co. today announced their Internet Dealers of the Year and eCommerce Elite winners. Given annually at the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) Convention and Exposition, ...

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USA TODAY

Internet stocks bounce back
USA TODAY
Apple has been a huge driver for the Internet 50 index. Apple has been a huge driver for the Internet 50 index. The market's surge that started in January has now pushed the Dow Jones industrial average to its highest point since May 19, 2008, ...

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