We give due respect to big boys because they really have impressive websites. They can afford to hire a $300.00 an hour Webmaster and a platoon of assistants to make them a small slick button.

As I said earlier, size doesn’t matter in Internet. In fact, come to think of it, being small has its advantages. If you were working alone, all decisions are yours. You make changes, you make your own design, you quote your own prices, you decide on everything—good or no good.

If you were working with your wife, you may have to disagree on some points but it is easier to make a decision. You don’t need glamorous “bull” sessions or so much brainstorming. As new ideas pump in, all you need is implement it. Try it. If it doesn’t work, kill it. Simple.

In Internet, being big in real world does not directly result to profitability and financial success. In fact, most of major dot.coms are so deep in red. A small obscure dot.com who provides product or service to his targeted market and who knows how to promote and market his/her website to this gigantic web world has all chances equal to well-oiled corporations.

Simply said, in Internet, we can be as BIG as anyone else. That is of course, when you know how.

Search engines reported a surge in attack-related queries

Not surprisingly, search engines were hit hard by consumers searching for information on disaster. The popular search engine, Google, reported that searches for news-related sites increased 60 times over normal levels on September 11. Within an hour of second airliner hitting WTC, Google received more than 6,200 queries for CNN in one minute. Google quickly established an "American Under Attack" section, which collected top ten search queries, including CNN, World Trade Center, BBC, Pentagon, MSNBC, Osama bin Laden, Nostradamus, American Airlines, FBI and Barbara Olsen. Barbara Olsen is Fox News commentator who was aboard airplane that hit Pentagon.

Scores of tech executives were lost in disaster

A high number of high tech and Internet executives were lost on September 11. Many were in their offices on high floors of World Trade Center, while others were aboard airliners that were hijacked. As my day job, I'm a senior editor at Electronic News, one of many trade publications published by Cahners Business Information. Two of our executives, Jeff Mladenik and Andrew Curry Green, were on Flight 11 from Boston to Los Angeles, first plane to hit WTC. Both men worked for eLogic, Cahners company that produces Web sites for company's publications.