Local businesses can easily gain eyes to their website by making sure their local search engine marketing is where it could be with a few simple steps. Claim your listing on major search engines. This is a simple step, but it is also very important. Claiming your business listing at Google, Yahoo, and Bing will give your company exposure and imrpove your rankings. Make sure you are listed in the correct categories. Having your business correctly listed is important in targeted searches. Making sure the mapping is correct and updating your listing can help with your searches. Keep your business information consistent. Having your information match ...

Twitter is set to earn about $25 million dollars for its search engine deals with Google and Microsoft, according to the L.A. Times. This will allow the site to earn a profit, something many people wondered was possible. Before the site had little revenue since it is a free site for its users. However, now that millions have people have signed on to use Twitter (it's the third-most popular social networking site after Facebook and MySpace), each message has become a commodity. "We believe that our search results and user experience will greatly benefit from the inclusion of this up-to-the-minute data," ...

Microsoft's search engine, Bing, has launched a beta "Visual Search" option. Instead of listing search results as a set of links and descriptions, you can have your results displayed as images to help you narrow down your search or scan through your results faster. At this point, the visual search options are limited to the categories that Bing provides, which fit the idea of visual searching. However you can organize your searches to help you compare people and products. Search for digital cameras and then organize them by their popularity or price. Search for a Major League Baseball player and you ...