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In another attempt to take down Microsoft, Google is now offering documents and spreadsheets for free. Too bad, it doesn’t work on Safari.

Have you heard about Google Gadgets?

It’s a relatively new service that Google is offering. Now you don’t have to be a web master to add cool features like Pac-Man or Sesame Street terror alerts to your website. There are over 1,200 Google Gadgets to choose from and they offer the code for free. So just pick as many as you want and add them to your site.

There are tons of companies like Fandango, Virgin, Travelocity, woot and ebay offering free code. I am sure in no time, sites will be cluttered with Google Gadgets.

If you haven’t heard of Cyworld yet, it’s the dominant website in South Korea with a penetration of more than a third of the whole population. Similiar to other social networking site like Facebook and MySpace, you can hang out with friends and get messages. But unlike the competition, it’s a virtual world that you control. You can decorate your world by shopping and buying furniture and decorations. And most items cost just $1. On average, Cyworld earns about $9 a year for each of its users compared to MySpace, who earned less than $3 per user. Anyway, check it out.

PlentyOfFish.com makes $300,000 a month from Google ads.

Created by Markus Frind, a local Vancouverite, Plentyoffish.com is the biggest free dating site on the Internet and it’s turning the online dating world upside down. The site gets up to 500 million page views per month and make over $10,000 per day. And Markus runs the site from home with just one employee, his girlfriend. He coded the website himself and the site only requires four servers to handle all that traffic.

Many doubted that his free dating site was earning that much revenue. So Markus posted a $900,000 check from Google on his site to silence everyone. The check represented two months of Adsense earnings.

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