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Local look is the use of specialized Internet look engines that acquiesce users to abide geographically accountable searches adjoin a structured database of bounded business listings. Typical bounded look queries accommodate not alone advice about "what" the armpit company is looking for (such as keywords, a business category, or the name of a customer product) but additionally "where" information, such as a artery address, burghal name, postal code, or geographic coordinates like breadth and longitude. Examples of bounded searches accommodate "Hong Kong hotels", "Manhattan restaurants", and "Dublin Hertz". Bounded searches display absolute or absolute bounded intent business listing. A look that includes a breadth modifier, such as "Bellevue, WA" or "14th arrondissement", is an absolute bounded search. A look that references a artefact or account that is about captivated locally, such as "restaurant" or "nail salon", is an absolute bounded search.

Local look sites are primarily accurate by announcement from businesses that ambition to be acutely featured back users look for specific articles and casework in specific locations(business web directory). Bounded look announcement can be awful able because it allows ads to be targeted actual absolutely to the look agreement and breadth provided by the user.

Local look is the accustomed change of acceptable off-line advertising, about broadcast by bi-weekly publishers and TV and radio broadcasters, to the Web. Historically, consumers relied on bounded newspapers and bounded TV and radio stations to acquisition bounded artefact and services. With the appearance of the Web, consumers are more application look engines to acquisition these bounded articles and casework online. In contempo years, the cardinal of bounded searches online has developed rapidly while off-line advice searches, such as book Yellow Page lookups, accept declined. As a accustomed aftereffect of this about-face in customer behavior, bounded artefact and account providers are boring alive their announcement investments from acceptable off-line media to bounded look engines.

A array of look engines are currently accouterment bounded search, including efforts backed by the better look engines, and new start-ups. Some of these efforts are added targeted to specific vertical segments while others are angry to mapping products.

Various geolocation techniques may be acclimated to bout visitors' queries with advice of interest. The sources and types of advice and credibility of absorption alternate varies with the blazon of bounded look engine.

Google Maps (formerly Google Local) looks for concrete addresses mentioned in approved web pages. It provides these after-effects to visitors, forth with business listings and maps. Product-specific look engines] use techniques such as targeted web ample and absolute feeds to aggregate advice about articles for auction in a specific geographic area.

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      The Christmas tree is one of the most popular traditions associated with the celebration of Christmas. Normally an evergreen coniferous tree that is brought into a home or used in the open, a Christmas tree is decorated with Christmas lights and colorful ornaments during the days around Christmas. An angel or star is often placed at the top of the tree, representing the host of angels or the Star of Bethlehem from the Nativity story.

   The first artificial Christmas trees were developed in Germany during the 19th century, though earlier examples exist. These "trees" were made using goose feathers that were dyed green. The German feather trees were one response by Germans to continued deforestation in Germany. 

      Feather Christmas trees ranged widely in size, from a small 2 inch tree to a large 98 inch tree sold in department stores during the 1920s. Often, the tree branches were tipped with artificial red berries which acted as candle holders.

      Over the years other styles of artificial Christmas trees have evolved, and become popular. In 1930 the U.S.-based Addis Brush Company created the first artificial Christmas tree made from brush bristles.  Another type of tree, the aluminum Christmas tree, is made from aluminum. The trees were manufactured in the United States, first in Chicago in 1958, and later in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, where the majority of the trees were produced. Most modern artificial Christmas trees are made from polyvinyl chloride (PVC) or other plastics. The manufacture of PVC requires petroleum and despite being plastic most artificial trees are not recyclable or biodegradable.

      Other gimmicks have developed as well. Fiber optic Christmas trees come in two major varieties, one resembles a traditional Christmas tree. One Dallas-based company offers "holographic mylar" trees in many hues. Tree-shaped objects made from such materials as cardboard, glass, ceramic or other materials can be found in use as tabletop decorations. Upside-down artificial Christmas trees became popular for a short time and were originally introduced as a marketing gimmick; they allowed consumers to get closer to ornaments for sale in retail stores as well as opened up floor space for more products.

     Artificial trees became increasingly popular during the late 20th century. Users of artificial Christmas trees assert that they are more convenient, and, because they are reusable, much cheaper than their natural alternative. Between 2001 and 2007 artificial Christmas tree sales jumped from 7.3 million to 17.4 million.

      The debate about the environmental impact of artificial trees is ongoing. Generally, natural tree growers contend that artificial trees are more environmentally harmful than their natural counterpart. On the other side of the debate, trade groups such as the American Christmas Tree Association, continue to refute that artificial trees are more harmful to the environment and maintain that the PVC used in Christmas trees has excellent recyclable properties. Lead, often used as a stabilizer in PVC, and its use in Chinese imported artificial trees has been an issue of concern among politicians and scientists over recent years. A 2004 study found that while in general artificial trees pose little health risk from lead contamination, there do exist "worst-case scenarios" where major health risks to young children exist. Another report, this time a 2008 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency report, found that as the PVC in artificial Christmas trees aged it began to degrade. The report determined that of the 50 million artificial trees in the United States approximately 20 million were 9 or more years old, the point where dangerous lead contamination levels are reached.

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