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On Thursday, Yahoo released the results of a survey which reveals that seventy percent of small businesses either have or will have an online presence by the end of 2004. The Yahoo Small Business survey was by Harris Interactive. By comparison, in October 2002, only 35 percent of small businesses had developed their own web site, according to a Small Business Administration report.

Released today in conjunction with National Small Business Week, the Yahoo survey provides results of a national analysis of more than 1,000 U.S. small-business owners and measured business-growth trends faced by owners of businesses with less than 100 employees.

In other developments, this may be the "quiet period" before Google's initial public offering of stock, but the company is bucking tradition by making plenty of noise. Since filing papers in late April saying it wants to sell $2.7 billion of stock to the public, the California-based search engine giant has not been shy about rolling out new products or articulating its views on software.

It has released a new advertising product that combines images and photos with text, unveiled new online diary software for computer users, and put an official Google company blog, or diary, on the Internet.

In unrelated news, Google will introduce a desktop search tool soon and is the clearest indication to date that Google hopes to extend its search business to compete directly with Microsoft's control of desktop computing.

Improved technology for searching information stored on a personal computer, the daily said, will also be a crucial feature of Microsoft's long-delayed version of its Windows operating system called Longhorn. That version, not expected before 2006 at the earliest, will have a redesigned file system, making it possible to track and retrieve information in ways not currently possible with Windows software.

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