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NEW YORK Yahoo said it would offer small businesses free Web sites in an effort to nudge more of them online.
Yahoo said it would offer the simple five-page sites as a test service through its Yahoo Local program, which aims to spread search marketing to the estimated 20 million U.S. small businesses, about half of which do not have Web sites, according to Kelsey Group figures cited by Yahoo executives.
“Our role is being advocates of small businesses,” said Paul Levine, Yahoo Local’s general manager.
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