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...store. "People find it easier to imagine themselves on a holiday the more they know and see about a destination," says Douglas Glenwright of Thomson. More stores and destinations are in the pipeline as headsets become cheaper. "Customers could soon come into our shops to buy a lunchtime virtual holiday," says Glenwright. Maybe, but can riding a virtual camel ever match the real thing...
...from last August's $85 debut price - and at least one analyst predicts they will hit $400. And revenue and profit unveiled at Yahoo! had a healthy glow, too. Innovation has been key at all three, says Standard & Poor's Internet equity analyst Scott Kessler: "They have amazing virtual research labs - those websites." And increasingly, users like what they find. Nielsen//NetRatings clocked growth in second-quarter searches using Google and Yahoo! at 6% and 9% respectively. And with the growth in broadband connections boosting the time Internet users spend online, advertisers get more chances to entice them. Global Internet...
...Yahoo!'s virtual laboratory at next.yahoo.com offers experimental tools like Mindset, which lets you sort search results according to what you're doing, such as shopping or researching...
Later this summer, MSN will debut its Virtual Earth feature, which will compete with Google Earth and offer even more detailed images. Its new search page, search.msn.com has a "local search" feature and is increasingly powerful and easy...
Abandoned homes? Usable yet worthless real estate? It sounds crazy at a time when house prices in most parts of the country are soaring and the Internet has allowed millions to set up virtual offices and Web-based businesses anywhere they like. But for vast stretches of rural America, this is cold reality. The kids moved away for college or work and never came back, and now the World War II generation that stabilizes so many small towns is fast reaching the limits of mortality. As town elders die, even their money flees, inherited by offspring who long ago headed...