Now that we are learning more about the changes that Google is making in their algorithm, strong, search-focused marketing firms are having to make dramatic adjustments to their styles.

This is 4 ways you can profit more in your business using Internet marketing. Having a well rounded marketing effort is the best way to ensure long term success.

Note to self: when creating a new search engine with $33 million in funding, remember to list your website on the front page when people search for you.

Can't buy Yahoo! (at least for now)? Buy search users instead.

Microsoft has launched a service called "Live Search Cashback." The program is linked to Microsoft's acquisition of Jellyfish.com last year, a cashback site similar to eBates, where rebates of varying percentages are given for purchases clicked-through from the site. This probably explains why the cashback portion of Jellyfish has been down of late --- and is down again today.

On Monday, Google and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) announced that Google has built custom video and image search technology for the center, to be used in the fight against child porn. Google had joined NCMEC's Technology Coalition Against Child Pornography in August of 2006.

When all else fails, declare yourself "open." Netscape first pulled this maneuver in the late 1990s; the Netscape browser is now extinct. Yahoo has declared its search results open to improvement.

Google Alerts is a service that provides e-mail updates on Google results for a specific set of search terms.