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Listed below are comments made by aberguy between Monday, 9th March 2009 and Wednesday, 23rd December 2009.

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Will business rescue us? 2:11pm on 23 Dec 2009 Asking around informally about the future? Try using Google Insight for Search to gauge the economic recovery or lack of it.

Google Trends have been good at forecasting flu trends and is also pretty effective at showing the current state of the economy. One of my main industries is travel and using Google insight for core search terms in the UK - I can say that the travel industry in some sectors is still 10% down on this time last year. Even with all the main economists predicting UK coming out of recession last quarter the trends data predicted continued recession.

Use the tools providing real time search for consumer goods and look at the real current situation of the economy. It's not good. Expect flat growth or 0.1% growth at most for the next set of GDP.
Christmas shopping: Online v High Street 11:11am on 07 Dec 2009 For me there's nothing quite like touching and feeling the stuff you're going to buy.
I've been a regular users of the internet for almost 15 years and also do business on line but I rarely buy on line.
The last thing I bought online was a computer that was preloaded with windows vista and as normal with windows I had a crash and needed to install the os. Looked for the windows disc and there was none, rang the company ( a houseld name company) and was told I had to buy the disc seperately so I had to reistall the old window xp instead.
There's nothing like going into a shop and talking to the assistant to know exactly what you are going to get and how much the full price will be.
Internet shopping has a long way to go before it can be considered reliable, honest and trustworthy.
YouTube row reflects online minefield 9:14pm on 09 Mar 2009 Well if PRS does not get sensible and start charging more sensible fees then I'll be watching youtube videos through public proxy servers in the US to get past the UK address issues.
It get me into Pandora and I'm sure it will get me into youtube

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