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Around 2000 Google rose to prominence. Google received better results for many searches with the use of an innovation called page rank. This ranked pages on the number and page rank of other web sites and pages that link to them, on the thought that good and desirable pages are linked to more then others. Google also maintained a minimal interface to its search engine. Most of the competitors embedded the search engine in a web portal

In 1994 Lycos, started at Carnegie Mellon University, was launched and became a commercial venture. Soon after lots of other search engines appeared and vied for popularity in the market. Some of them are Magellan, Excite, Alta Vista and Yahoo. Yahoo was one of the most popular ways for people to find pages of interest, but its search function operated on its web directory rather than full text web page copies. This allowed information seekers to browse the directory rather then doing a key-word based search.

For many years, internet users have treated online photo services like a batch of holiday snapshots, looking at them for a while, then leaving them to collect dust on a shelf as soon as something new comes along.  Smilebox.com, a start- up based in Redmond, Washington, is offering customers the oppotunity to build online scrapbooks with animation, music, and artwork.  In a market cluttered with free services that struggle to produce a profit, Smilebox is actually attracting paying customers.  Smilebox.com users pay $1 or $2 to choose from 350 graphic templates for their digital photos, or pay a $5 monthly subscription for unlimited access to the templates.

Shutterfly is an independent company with a singular focus- you and your pictures....your story.  Shutterfly claims to understand and share your passion to create and communicate.  Everyone at Shutterfly is also a customer, deeply committed to delivering th highest quality products and services while making things as easy as possible.  Shutterfly has three main goals:

1. We make it easy to organize, share and create.  All your pictures can be stored on Shutterfly free of charge without limitations, restrictions or deletion.  Your pictures are instantly online and friends can see them without signing up.  Your special memories can be turned into personalized gifts, and there are several "How to" tips to help with everyrhing you need or want to know.

2. We will inspire you in so many ways.  Shutterfly provides a community meeting place where members can exchange ideas.  Shutterfly also quarantees customer satisfaction.

3. We are dedicated to making the world a better place by helping you share life's joy.

My Local Event - (Planning of My Family Reunion) 

How to Start Planning Your Family Reunion

(First elect a Committee such as the person who will Host the Event, Secretary/Treasurer, Activity Coordinator)

1. Plan you guest list with committee.  Decide how many generations will be included.
2. How large will the reunion be.  Your committee or entire reunion can decide where it will be held.  The host is responsible for hotel accommodations and catering.  The host will also meet with committee to decide on menu and activities.
3. Plan the budget for the Reunion, this involves the whole committee.  This will include the amount that the committee feels that those attending will be willing to pay.  Such as hotel room cost, cost of  get acquaintance night, banquet, name tags gifts and other activities such as DJ, photographer.
   
4. Length and location of event.
5. Planning to feed everyone attending will be the job of the host as well as the committee, again this will include price and what the menu should be.
6. Activities include games, local sites to visit, door prizes and programs and presentations.  Usually the activity coordinator will handle this.  The host will be also assist this person with the areas local sites and places those attending the reunion may want to visit.
7. Getting the news out to the family.  The committee can send letters out, but we suggest using email it is a whole lot cheaper.  Hotel reservations can be done on line along with car rental and airline reservations.
8. When a well planned event comes together, HAVE FUN AND MAKE MEMORIES.

The idea of organizing a competitive fishing tournament began in the summer of 1928, when a party of Mobile businessmen were sliding through the tides of Mobile Bay.  Their fishing lines stretched for that elusive Big One, then the Big One struck.  The businessmen met for several weeks following that fishing trip in the home of L.G. Adams, Sr. and eventually with the Alabama State Game and Fisheries Commissioner I.T. Quinn, spawned the Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo.  By this simple move, Mobile was to be popularized as a mecca for saltwater anglers.

The first rodeo was held in 1929 and was such a success that Quinn suggested an association be formed to perpetuate the contest on an annual basis.  The first competitive fishing event hosted (for this time) a staggering 260 widely enthusiastic sports fishermen.

In earlier years Fort Gaines Pier was headquarters for the Rodeo.  A boat ride was the only transportation to the island.  Rodeo brochures boasted, "There's a fish for everybody at the rodeo and they bit as a matter of civic pride."
After nineteen years, in 1948, the Mobile Junior Chamber of Commerce, and subsequently the Mobile Jaycees, assumed leadership of the rodeo, which had grown too grand to be staged every year by interested individuals alone.

Today the rodeo attracts over  100,000 spectators per year to its current Dauphin Island site and over 3,200 fishermen each year.  The Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo is proud of its many contributions to the local community including donations to the Department of Marine and Sciences at the University of South Alabama.  The Rodeo has donated over $100,000 over the past seven years towards this fund with the University of South Alabama Foundation matching the contributions each year. 

The Gulf Coast Ethnic & Heritage Jazz Festival hosted its tenth presentation of world-class jazz.  The Festival was founded on the belief that "ethnic" means everybody and every "heritage" is not some fixed point in the past.  the Gulf Coast Ethnic & Heritage Jazz Festival for 2008 seeks to present jazz through a declaration of its evolution.  The Jazz Festival provides a vibrant mix of entertainment and education.  The Festival continues to present jazz in a music demonstration workshop that is designed to introduce students and the community to the business of Jazz.  The Festival showcase some of the finest spoken word artist, in the Festival's "Evening of Poetry" which is a venue for the "telling" arts.

This admission-free festival has presented professional musicians and recording artists who have their roots in Mobile.  Many of these musical talents who have become national and international entertainers are alumni of the Mobile County and Baldwin County school systems who are giving back to their community by contributing to the success of the the Jazz Festival.

The Gulf Coast Ethnic & Heritage Festival have provided audiences with truly unique entertainment experiences from such greats as The count Basie Orchestra, The Duke Ellington Orchestra and the James Brown Band.  This event is financially supported by the State, the County, and the City, corporations and other local businesses and individuals.