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The month of September saw nearly 75% of all searches in the U.S. conducted by Google, according to a recent report from Experian Hitwise.

In his article “Google Rules Online Search Market In September, Surojit Chatterjee, a contributing blogger for International Business Times, says the report showed a 1% sequential gain in September, over the total number of searches conducted on Google in August.

Bing searches gained 2% when the search was conducted on Bing.com. However, the report says that Yahoo, which recently merged with Bing to use its search engine, reported a 5% loss in total searches.  That negates any gains that Bing.com may have made on searches made to its home site during September.

64 other surveyed search engines split the remaining 4% of the search pie not already taken by Google or “Bing-Hoo.”  According to an article at KomarketingAssociates.com, the bulk of that growth came from the Ask network.

Chatterjee says one bright spot for Bing is that the service has been growing intellectually. It witnessed its first double-digit sequential growth last month in the four major categories of Automotive, Health, Shopping and Travel.

A follow-up report in the Times from reporter Manikanan Raman added that Bing-Yahoo also experienced a considerable increase in click through rates during September. He said that Bing’s ad serving algorithm delivers more relevant advertising than Yahoo does. He sees this as an advantage for advertisers, since click through rates can often be used to measure the success of an online advertising campaign.

Raman added that the entire U.S. paid search market continues to grow, which can only bode well for Bing.  He said that a recent report from Paid Search Optimizer SearchIgnite revealed a 6% increase in spending on paid search over the past year. The firm also said that PPC ads delivered by Bing displayed little cost per click inflation. This flies in the face of speculators, who believed that CPC for the newly allied Bing-Yahoo would skyrocket.  As for now, the CPC market appears to be holding steady.

According to Raman, “Yahoo and Bing have been testing the paid search integration portion of their alliance since mid-July. Yahoo and Microsoft are now working on Yahoo’s transition to using AdCenter, Microsoft’s self-serve search ad platform.” He says Microsoft anticipates completion of this task later this month.

The Experian Hitwise report was not able to assess whether Google’s release of its Google Instant service was any benefit to its growth in September. However, Chatterjee reports that stock prices for Google rose steadily throughout September after the release of the Google Instant service.

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Small businesses have always played an important role in the growth of the U.S. economy. The moment recession hit the economy, small businesses stop hiring and unemployment started rising. The situation is not any different in this recession as well. Business grants are being offered for such enterprises. The government has decided to go beyond normal solutions and is offering business grants for women as well.

Why is it so important? Private venture capitalists have their own set of prejudices when it comes to funding businesses. It is not necessary for the best business idea to win funding. Private venture capitalists have not exactly covered themselves in glory in this regard. Today, there are more and more women entrepreneurs in the field. It is only in recent years that women have broken the glass ceiling and have reached the top. Yet, venture capitalists are not comfortable with women entrepreneurs. The government is trying to overcome this problem by offering generous small business grants for woman.

The funding offered by the government covers new as well as old businesses. That is a reason why the government is offering funding for new businesses as well as existing businesses. The amount of funding ranges from $1000 dollars to $5000 dollars. Any business that is owned by a woman will qualify for the business grants, subject to other conditions. For starters, the business must be owned by a woman. That is to say, more than 50% of the stake in the business must be held by a woman. Just like all other government grants, there are no artificial strings attached. The grant proposal must be submitted and the funding shall be transferred by the government.

There is no such condition involved here, the approach of the government is to boost business and not just focus on profits alone. That is to say, there is no compulsion to incorporate any male partner just because the investor is not comfortable with a female running the show. There is no need to devolve the stake or accept compromises in business plans.

The recession is looking as if it is going to continue for a very long time. You and your family may have found the perfect way of finding financial stability in the form of small business grants for women.

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Exactly how we work is definitely improving significantly recently for numerous basic reasons and also at a faster rate than humankind have ever before experienced. Mankind has gone through using the power of the horse, to the train, to the plane and with the power of the internet we can travel around the modern world along at the speed of light.

War, starvation, disease and technologies. These are the main factors with the progression or devastation of mankind. You could also believe that all of them are strongly connected. Famine can result in sickness and war, or even war can lead to starvation and disease.

The earliest piece of man-made technology ever developed was a flint hand axe initially employed as a chopping tool after which after that being a weapon. Obviously, it was an important stage in the act of climbing the food chain.

Technology and our own competence of it is something in which no other creature in nature has. The twentieth century has seen all of us drive technology to extraordinary levels. If for example the last 100 have been fascinating just think what the subsequent hundred years will probably be like.

The current world-wide economic turmoil has witnessed many individuals reconsider their jobs and more often than not this has been an urgent change. A lot of people lost jobs and a lot of companies had to seriously re-think the actual manner which they function.

Great Britain is very much a service based economy and the majority of the UK’s workforce spend the day within the office. However technology is actually rapidly altering it. If thirty years ago you had a company meeting with somebody in the united states you had no choice but to fly there or that they had to fly to you.

Today having technology for instance Skype as well as other interactive video technology businesses do not need to take on such long and costly process. In reality technology seems to have come so far you can possibly do your own work from your own home equally efficiently.

Office furniture stores over recent years have seen a rise with the amount of home office furniture getting purchased. Certainly the latest economic uncertainty acquired a direct impact but others have thought that if the actual trend carries on there won’t be any requirement for offices at some point.

Others might believe that although we can carry out our work from home with the aid of some nice home business furniture, it will never replace the office since the home cannot have the same impact as an office that brings people and their suggestions together.

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Please find the link to the Small Business California (SB-Cal) Survey of California small businesses.  Last year it received 630 responses from every county in the state.  Please take a moment to complete and forward to other small business owners you know.  The results will form the SB-Cal agenda for 2009.

Survey Link: http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB228QR44U46V

I went to a business mixer last night. I was in a pretty good mood and I ran into a few folks I hadn’t seen in awhile. As is the norm – many asked, “How’s Business?” What used to be an ice breaker now carries a notable edge to it. Times are tough.

One long time acquaintance launched into a doom and gloom discourse. I excused myself. I am not typically a head in the sand kinda guy, but I can’t spend a lot of energy on how bad can might possible get. Especially, since I have little or no power to affect the state of the economy over the next few months. But for my own personal sanity, I just can’t wallow in it.

So I weather on . . .

When business is slow, I work on stuff I don’t have time for during busier times – I network, I update our marketing collateral, I pitch new projects. Am I being naive? Maybe. Or maybe (this is my more positive spin) I am preparing for a time when business returns. Some of our competitors have fallen away and we have an opportunity to competitively position ourselves for the recovery.

It’s your choice . . .

Each year Small Business California does an annual survey of small businesses around the state to determine its agenda. Last year it survey received over 600 responses and had at least one business respond from every county in the state.

They would like to ask you to take a look at last years survey and forward to them any questions you think they should add as well as questions you think they should delete. You can access all of their surveys over the years by going to their website www.smallbusinesscalifornia.org.