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Gmail's software also lets people add contacts from Microsoft's Outlook e-mail client, a feature supported by Yahoo and Hotmail as well. A Google spokesman confirmed that the tool, and other new features, was launched over last weekend. He declined to comment further, citing the company's quiet period before it goes public later this year.

In other news, the number of unique visitors to fantasy sports websites peaked at about 7.4 million in October 2003, a month in which all four major sports were in their regular season or playoffs. A study by comScore released in July 2004 measures the volume and usage of the unique audience for online fantasy sports sites from October 2003 to May 2004.

Fantasy sports Web sites averaged about 4.7 million unique visitors in that period, with users averaging 93 minutes and 219 pages each per visit, with about 7 visits per month.

In other developments, "the future of search lies with bigger concepts", said Blinkx co-founder Suranga Chandratillake. Blinkx, which last month quietly launched a beta of its desktop search application, is getting ready to take on the increasingly competitive Web search market.

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