http://www.chacha.com/ is a search engine where you actually have people helping you in a sort of chat session. I did a "search with guide" and found that while the results take longer, it's comfortbale to explain what you want to a person. I even know someone who became a guide.
The new guide said, "I've been toying with ChaCha for a few hours...I made it through all the training, achieved Pro status, answered a few more queries for info, made some money, and now I achieved Master status, which means I can invite some other Guides who are interested in doing this. My sponsor (the one who sent me an invite) loves me....which is nice.
If anyone has tried making some money from being a guide, please do leave a comment.
http://www.msdewey.com/ is the other search engine. Search results seem fine but Ms. Dewey gets impatient if you keep her waiting. She can be amusing for a minute or two though...
We all want better search engine rankings. Most webmasters struggle to get these rankings on their own while only a few of us turn to professionals for help. One such professional SEO is Aaron Wall (I don't know if Aaron is still doing his consulting thing - he used to if I remember correctly have a consulting service where he charged $75 an hour and of course he sells his SEO book).
Another is Jim Westergren. You know he can get the job done because he finished second (missing first place by a few minutes) in the v7n SEO contest.
To find out about his services, you have to go to SEO Fusion where you find that he has the right approach to SEO (link building). The one thing I'm not crazy about is their "under 100 links page" thing when buying permanent links. Make that "under 10" and you've got my business for sure.
I do use several link-building services, but I am considering hiring an SEO to do all my optimizing so that I can concentrate on dealing with advertisers.
http://www.seo-search-engine-ranking.com/ad_network_222.php