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Google has quietly unveiled a search-within-a-site feature on its main Web search engine, giving users the ability to refine searches before going to a merchant or publisher's page. The company launched search-within-a-site on March 5 after several days of testing, according to a posting to the offi...

Search engine optimization experts pretty much agree that there are a few important steps to improving your search engine rankings and, surprisingly, no technical knowledge is required for any of them. Step No. 1: Incorporate keywords into the title tag. This is the number one factor in achieving hi...

Ask.com is looking to women for answers. The 12-year-old search engine is reportedly narrowing its focus to appeal to married women, mostly in the South and Midwest, in its first major move under the direction of new CEO Jim Safka. Ask.com is trimming 40 jobs, according to published reports, as its ...

Hoping to become the portal of choice into the mobile Web, Yahoo on Tuesday unveiled onePlace, a content and services management tool meant to become a customized mobile Web starting page. onePlace's bookmarking tools will enable users who access the Internet from smartphones and other handheld devi...

The best way to achieve high search engine rankings for new Web sites may not be what you expected. You should not submit your site directly to the search engines as this process can take weeks or even months to get your site listed. Instead you need to get listed on top ranking pages that are rele...

There are ways of achieving top rankings in Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc. that are kept secret. In the following article you will learn how to take advantage of these tips and gain more traffic to your site than you could ever imagine. Here's an easy-to-follow guide to achieving top search engine ranking...

Confusion is swirling around Microsoft's bid for Yahoo. After having been twice rebuffed, Microsoft reportedly is planning to authorize a proxy fight this week. Meanwhile, institutional shareholders are about to lock horns over whether Microsoft should up its bid of $31 a share for Yahoo. Then there...

The latest rumors buzzing around beleaguered Yahoo is that it is looking to restart merger talks with AOL, and might look at Google or Disney -- anyone but Microsoft. According to the Times of London, Yahoo and its team of advisers from investment banks Goldman Sachs and Lehman Bros. have been evalu...

Despite its problems, Yahoo is playing it cool when it comes to Microsoft's bid of $31 a share, or $44.6 billion, even though the offer was 62 percent higher than its Jan. 31 closing price of $19.18 a share. Yahoo is "thoughtfully evaluating a wide range of potential strategic alternatives," CEO Jer...

In an effort to boost its market share in China, Google is reportedly in the final stages of a deal with Universal Music Group that would enable the Internet search giant to provide free music downloads to Chinese users. Google, the No. 1 search engine in other large markets such as the U.S., signif...

Search giant Google missed analyst forecasts for fourth-quarter profit -- even as it slowed its hiring growth to curb expenses -- and executives cited the difficulties of making social networking advertising work as one of the factors for the miss. The longtime Wall Street darling joined a long list...

Seeking to reshape the online landscape and create a serious challenger to Google with a single bold stroke, Microsoft has made a $44.6 billion unsolicited bid to buy struggling portal Yahoo. The offer -- shareholders can choose either cash or the equivalent amount of Microsoft stock -- valued Yahoo...

In Greek mythology, the Hydra was a creature who could not be defeated, as each time one of its heads was cut off, two more would sprout back in its place. It seems that SEO mythology is no different; every time one SEO myth is debunked, two more SEO myths crop back up in its place, only adding to t...

Leading domain registrar Network Solutions is under fire for a controversial practice under which it briefly reserves domain names after it notices search activity on the names. Network Solutions describes the technique as a way to protect legitimate interest in domains from modern-day cyber-squatte...

Ever notice that Microsoft -- with cash to burn, apparently -- waits for the obvious to become inevitable and then ends up paying huge premiums for companies in order to catch up to reality? We saw it with aQuantive, Softricity and Groove Networks. It's happened again with Tuesday's $1.2 billion bid...