Spending shifted among the major search engines, with Google losing some 5 percentage points of spending share from Q3 2008 to Q3 2009. Bing gained 2.9 percentage points in the same time period (compared with then-existing Microsoft search engines).

Small businesses are not hitting it off with social media, according to an August 2009 study from Citibank.

As you can see on the graph more than three quarters of US small business Executives are really not convinced by social networks.

"According to an online survey by Internet2Go and MerchantCircle, 45% of small-business owners use Facebook to promote their business, and 46% have a Twitter account. In total, 53% had created a social network profile." - eMarketer