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Skirmishes with the Chinese government have not been good for Google's business listing search within the country. According to recent data Google has lost market share to rival Baidu for the fifth quarter in a row. Google currently has a 19% share of the market, while Baidu has 76%.

This represents a decline of 12% since the beginning of the year for Google since it first announced its partial retreat from the mainland to Hong Kong. The drop in traffic is largely due to the fact that a lack of mainland search operations has made Google.cn more unreliable and inconsistent. However, while it's search engine numbers are declining, its overall revenues from China are not. This is a result of Google's effort to boost its display ad network and aggressively pursue Chinese advertisers to place ads on its network.

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© KC Toh

Your floors can be rather bare if you only have wooden or tiled Empire Carpet. These floors are often very cold to walk on during winter, and many home owners prefer to add carpeting instead. Carpets can give a more comfortable feel.

There are many different kinds of carpeting, however, and each of them have their advantages and disadvantages as well as diverse requirements for maintenance as discussed by Empire Carpet. For example, there are different textures of carpeting including wool carpets and synthetic carpets. The most important aspect about your carpet's texture is that it should be durable. It should also be suitable to the look and feel of the other furniture and interior decorations of your home, as suggested by Empire Carpet Home Decorating Ideas.

Another differentiating aspect of various carpets is their price and quality. You'll want an affordable carpet, but you don't want it to be too cheap otherwise it may be a lower quality carpet that may get easily damaged and dirtied.

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© Doug Beckers

Last week a European based small business directory was shut down by US trade officials on accusations that they were charging small businesses in the US for unwanted listings. The company, Yellow Pages Marketing B.V., was sending out faxes to small companies in the US, Australia and Canada asking them for business information for local listings.

These faxes copied the Yellow Pages logo to make recipients think that the requests were legitimate. Hidden in the fine print was language that bound the business owners into contracts where fees of $89 per month were charged for a two year listing in an online directory. The unsuspecting business owners were receiving bills for over $1000, and when they refused to pay the company tacked on late fees or threatened to send the bills to collection.

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