Facebook’s rise over as user numbers drop again

(Number provided by the NMA Magazine, issue 20.03.2008).
It seems that the ever-growing social network Facebook has seen a slight decrease of interest in the first quarter of 2008, at least that is was statistics reveal: from December 2007 to February 2008, Facebook has experienced a fall from 8.9 million unique users to 8.3 million in the UK, that’s a considerable drop of 600,000 users in just 3 months!
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There is a lot of arguing over the efficiency of paid search over natural search. Paid results are those that are displayed as “sponsored links” on search engine results and affiliate sites (usually on the top and right handside of results). Natural search results are those which are displayed thanks to organic search. These results are not paid for, and their position in search queries is determined exclusively by the search engine algorithms. SEO therefore deals with natural search results. PPC (pay-per-click) deals with advertised results.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Paramount Pictures is to become the first major studio to make clips from thousands of its movies available for use on the Internet.

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Le Monde announced the Canadian army had asked its soldiers to be cautious with what they posted on their Facebook page. It asked its fellow soldiers “not to post any personal information or online photos on the Facebook website, as these could be used by terrorist groups such as Al-Qaida”.
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