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Demonua Posted 13 years ago
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Most people dont realize that 95% of all images online for florists belong to wire services

What mean wire services in this context?
  

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Hi A wire service is an internet service that provides news, other items of interest and images. People can then use them on their own websites. I expect there are wire services that provide some images of flowers.

  • Hi A wire service is an internet service that provides news, other items of interest and images.
  • People can then use them on their own websites.
  • I expect there are wire services that provide some images of flowers.
  • However, that is a limited source, so you would probably find that many florists are using the same images from those wire services.
  • Maybe 95% of them are I believe your writer is offering an alternative source and is pointing out that, therefore, his or her images are more special The sentence is slightly confusing because, I believe, you can also say "florist wire service" to mean any service (including via telephone) where you can ask for flowers to be sent to another address, maybe far away However, I think that's not the meaning here: it is the meaning in the first paragraph above that the writer is using Dave
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A wire service is an internet service that provides news, other items of interest and images. People can then use them on their own websites. I expect there are wire services that provide some images of flowers. However, that is a limited source, so you would probably find that many florists are using the same images from those wire services. Maybe 95% of them are

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demonua What mean wire services in this context?
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