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You are what you Google

BY MICHELLE BALTAZAR | THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008 11:55AM

Among the top finance term searches on Google this year were 'superannuation', 'interest rates' and 'investment banks' but as to which keyword was more popular than the other changed state by state, according to Google Australia.

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