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Matt Hicks has a great article on the rise of vertical search engines and the recent launch of Become.com.

eWEEK: "Market analyst Jupiter Research, a division of Jupitermedia Corp., issued a study that predicts growth in vertical search, particularly as the bid prices for popular keywords on general search engines such as Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. rise.

Jupiter Research based its report on a finding that 79 percent of the $2.6 billion spent on paid search last year in the United States fit into four categories-retail, financial services, media and entertainment, and travel."

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