IRVINE, Calif.----WebVisible, Inc., a worldwide leader in local online advertising, today released its 2009 Q3 Report on the State of Small Business Online Advertising. This report, gleaned from data gathered over 90 days from a sample of WebVisible’s small and medium sized business clients, examines local interactive advertising trends through Q3 2009, using Q3 2008 as a baseline.

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BOSTON & DUBLIN----Last figure in US Search Market table should read 80.39%. This figure was mistyped in the original.

BOSTON & DUBLIN----Microsoft’s search engine Bing recovered market share slightly in the US in October according to web analytics firm, StatCounter. The firm’s research arm StatCounter Global Stats finds that Bing took 8.86% in October, up from 8.51% in September but below its peak of 9.64% in August.