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Still In Search of Disclosure

June 9, 2005
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One year after Consumer Reports WebWatch research demonstrated many of the Web’s most popular search engines fail to provide clear disclosures about how their results are influenced by advertisers, follow-up research by WebWatch confirms the industry’s continuing inability to adequately inform consumers about the financial forces at work in online search.

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