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Job Slowdown in April Halts Growth in Overall Confidence

By Guest PostApril 28, 2012Economyapril, consumer attitude, consumer confidence, economic optimism, economist, financial situation, growth, household, richard curtin, sentiment index, thomson reuters, university of michigan

ANN ARBOR, Mich.— Consumer confidence remained largely unchanged at improved levels in April as consumers were still hopeful about future job gains despite disappointing recent developments, according to economist Richard Curtin, director of the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers.

The Surveys, conducted by the U-M Institute for Social Research, have been monitoring consumer attitudes and expectations for over 60 years. (more…)

comScore Releases April 2011 U.S. Search Engine Rankings

By Guest PostMay 11, 2011Technologyaol, april, ask network, bing, Comscore, comscore qsearch, google sites, Microsoft, qsearch data, u.s. search marketplace, web search, yahoo search direct

RESTON, VA, May 11, 2011 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. Google Sites led the explicit core search market in April with 65.4 percent of search queries conducted.

The April 2011 qSearch data reflect the impact of Yahoo! Search Direct, Yahoo!’s new feature that delivers search results in real-time while users type their query. Yahoo! Search Direct was available only on Yahoo! U.S. Web Search for the month of April. (more…)

Volcanoes More Dangerous to Earth than Nuclear Bombs

By PravdaSeptember 2, 20101 commentEnvironmentantilles, april, atlantis, catania, crete-mycenaean, eruption, etna, Europe, eyyafyatlayokudlya, Hiroshima, Iceland, indonesian volcano, kamchatka peninsula, krakatau, martinique, mediterranean, minoan civilization, mont pele, peak sarychev, pompeii, santorini, sergei balmasov, sergei fedorov, soufriere, st vincent, tambora volcano, traffic jams, vesuvius, volcanic activity, volcanologist

Many still remember traffic jams in Europe, caused by the April eruption of Eyyafyatlayokudlya. Scientists around the world genuinely fear the catastrophic consequences of volcanic activity.

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Job Slowdown in April Halts Growth in Overall Confidence

comScore Releases April 2011 U.S. Search Engine Rankings

Volcanoes More Dangerous to Earth than Nuclear Bombs