Search Engine Optimization News and Updates

News and updates geared to help you search the Internet, stay up to date on search news, optimize your site for the search engines, and obtain higher rankings.


New Yahoo! Shortcuts to Find Answers Quckly

Short cuts allow you to perform move advanced searches without having to learn a weird programming language. These are extremely helpful when the information you are seeking seems to elude the general search (or you keep brining up one million plus pages). For more infomation on what shortcuts are and how to use them, click here!

Amazon's New A9 Search Engine

The online superstore giant now has a new search engine called A9. This search engine is powered by Google, Alexa and Amazon's own collection of data.

AltaVista now powered by Yahoo!

AltaVista is no longer serving up their own data. Yahoo! is now the search technology driving this site.
AltaVista was once a strong innovator that was a major player prior to Google. For those know how to take advantage of it, advanced Boolean is still supported.

Google Gets the Message, Launches Gmail

Google is beta testing a new email service with huge storage abilities and the ability to search your own messages. Text ads will be present, but no annoying popups, etc. (At least for now.) It's obvious that Google wants to expand into a portal site like Yahoo! No, it's not their April fools joke.

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