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How many google searches are done in a second?

228 million searches/ hour

Search based advertising is a good example of dependent variables. If ever you find that your advertising is not performint at par, you will have to remember this dependency that you are baking in and monitor the search trends too, to tweak your approach.

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Emerging Domestic Markets: How Financial Entrepreneurs Reach Underserved Communities in the United States

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Reverse index

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