The Walt Disney Company has bought 43% of Infoseek, the Internet search engine and directory service.

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Sales through the group's stores rose 18%, helped by 10% extra floor space, while sales at the Next Directory mail order service were ahead by 5%.

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Google is also pulling in more small business advertisers by making it simpler for firms like ReachLocal, a marketing service, and directory producer R.

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Kayak offers a flight tracker, a price alert notification service, an airline directory, baggage-fee directory and airport information.

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Many people will use directory inquiries too seldom to find out which service is the best value for money.

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Improves Apple File Service performance, especially when using a home directory hosted on an AFP server.

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