Former Google employees just launched a new Search Engine–Cuil (www.cuil.com). According to a Reuters article today, Cuil, which is being launched to compete with the Search giant, “goes beyond prevailing search techniques that focus on Web links and audience traffic patterns and instead analyzes the context of each page and the concepts behind each user search request.”

There is new layout and “psychology” to Cuil. It enables searchers to reference cross-topics in a more graphically engaging, social networking-intelligent manner.

Read more of the Reuters article (via Yahoo! Tech News) here.

Several months of talks of an acquisition of the pioneering search engine, Yahoo!, by Microsoft ended today. On the same day, an announcement was made that Yahoo! signed a deal with the other giant, Yahoo!’s to-date rival, Google. Reports on the deal are that Google ads will now appear in certain Yahoo! Search Results.

The next couple of months should be very interesting to watch.

Story from CNN Money, Thursday, June 12, 2008.

Many of my company’s clients approach us with requests for “SEO”. While there are still ways to get your website noticed by search engines that go beyond basic “good housekeeping” on the site itself, very little else, especially today, but the quality of the content will, ultimately, keep your site ranked higher than others.

I found a great article on this topic on SearchEngineWatch.com (part of Incisive Interactive Marketing LLC). Click here to visit the article. The key is giving birth to a “healthy baby”; namely, to develop the site with the right principles and ensure that your content is as clear and, as the example in the SearchEngineWatch.com article states, something that would be found as clearly as you would a book on a topic in a Public Library.