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A search engine allows people to find web pages and sites that contfasthe engine returns the pages and sites that it determines to best match the search criteria. Each search engine has its own method of indexing a page to determine which ones rank best, note that most public search engines (i.e., Yahoo!, AltaVista, and Lycos) actually use both a page search engine and a directory search engine.

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Search engine- Indexes the content of web pages automatically using existing hyperlinks and other metadata.

Did you know you could support your favorite charity just by searching the Internet? You can if you use GoodSearch.com, a search engine powered by Yahoo. When founders Ken & JJ Ramberg realized that search engines generated nearly $4 billion in advertising revenue, they started their own, aiming to donate 50 percent of the profits to charity.

Everybody's got to have a gimmick, a shtick. Pizza Hut has the cheese crust, car dealerships throw in the key chain, and in the online marketing and seo industry, one of these gimmicks is the free marketing tools offered by websites that guarantee to yield results for the marketing team lucky enough to find them first. Over the past year, many sites and marketing tools have been used and discarded, however a few gems have managed to woo us into regular usage.

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Every since I was little, mashed taters have been my weakness. My favorite kind are the instant kind. So simple, open a packet pour it in a pot and add milk. Ten minutes later, "PRESTO!" I have a tasty treat that will do exactly what its meant to do, satisfy my craving. Well, in the computer world there is what I would call the "mashed taters" of APIs. They are called mashups. A mashup is a web program that uses data from more than source or API and creates one integrated tool.

Facebook.com, a social networking site with 31 million active users, recently announced efforts to develop a more sophisticated ad serving system allowing marketers to precisely target ads based on the personal data users have provided about themselves.