Over the past two years, both the business and practice of search engine marketing have become much more complex. The same is true of the websites search engine marketers work with. The evolving design techniques and technologies that have made the website of today far more versatile than those of previous years, have also made them harder to work with for third party service vendors such as SEOs.

A one-way ticket purchased on a walk-up basis will now cost $100 more, thanks to higher fuel costs.

She’s a step closer to that village-the village made up of people who know what’s best for you and your children. Even better for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, she’ll get both parties to join her. The glue that holds them together-outrage about a video game.

The long awaited restructuring under new CEO Mark Hurd begins, with massive layoffs starting next week.

The disclosure of a 2002 email demonstrates its investigation of Linux source code found no infringement.

A ban on imports of Canadian cattle has been lifted by a U.S. federal appeals court. The ban was originally in effect to keep mad cow disease out of the country.

Crude oil prices hovers in the $58 range in midday trading. The price opened at $58.35 this morning and shot up as high as $58.90 before dropping back to $58. Traders are anxious to see how Hurricane Emily will alter oil tanker traffic from Venezuela and Mexico.

Yahoo has announced their plans to open a new research facility in partnership with the University of California, Berkeley. The facility is expected to in August, 2005.

Yesterday, a federal appeals court overturned a ruling that banned Canadian cattle from being imported into the United States due to mad cow disease concerns.

Take the pain out of gain and decrease the upheaval surrounding change by following six commonsense steps to effective management.

Every once in a while–and probably more often than we should–we find ourselves reviewing our SEO pricing models. Pricing SEO has always been a real sticking point for me because there is no one-size-fits-all pricing metric.

Firefox was pleased to read they continue to increase their market share slowly but surely in the web browser market. While Internet Explorer (IE) by Microsoft remains the proverbial leviathan, Firefox does show promise.

A distant planet, with a greater mass than Jupiter, orbits three suns; astronomers had thought this would be impossible.

A denial of service flaw in the Windows Remote Desktop Service could be attacked, causing a system crash.

Does your Sales Pipeline leak? If you answered no, you don’t even understand the question. Every business’ Sales Pipeline leaks to some extent. The question is: Have you done everything you can to ensure that it does not leak excessively? Do you even know what your Sales Pipeline looks like?

A busted fuel gauge causes problems when you’re riding down the road, especially when you thought you had a half-a-tank. When you run out, you grab your gas can and start walking. That’s a little trickier when you’re just outside the atmosphere, at least that’s what NASA thinks when it comes to the Discovery.

When a company announces that they’ve lost a billion dollars in the first three months of the year, as General Motors did two months ago, it is a good indication that they are way, way off course.

Another group is not satisfied with Google’s effort to digitize books for their Google Print for Libraries and has joined in the voices asking them to cease these activities.

VeriSign announced that it has acquired Reston, Virginia-based security intelligence firm iDEFENSE for approximately $40 million in cash.

Do enough searching on Yahoo and you’ll see graphical ads based on your queries begin to appear over a 48 hour period.

Q: A key investor in my business has suggested that I hire a consultant to do a SWOT Analysis to help plan for the future. I try not to argue with my investors, but I’m not so sure I need to have this done. What do you think? — Laurie B.

Microsoft subsidiary Groove Networks will work with government defense contractor General Dynamics on collaboration solutions.