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I’ve stayed in a pretty wide range of hotels; none of them seemed dangerous, but some were definitely less pleasant than others.  Now Yahoo Shortcuts is stepping up its effort to help users find the best possible lodgings.

Google has a lot of fans, and has made friends with any number of businesses. Now the company has befriended the state of Pennsylvania. The "Google Earth geospatial image browser" is set to launch "on the official tourism website of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, VisitPA.com."

Jim Lanzone, CEO of Ask.com, recently made some interesting comments to The Guardian's Kate Bulkley. Lanzone talked about the current state of affairs at Ask, and also spoke about the company's future. He deserves credit for not giving typical responses that have obviously been polished by the PR department.

The recent Grand Theft Auto scandal surrounding the secret and sexually explicit Hot Coffee modification has done more than cause uproar in Congress. Game developers are taking a more hands-on approach by launching the first ever Sex in Video Games Conference this summer to build support for a new special interest group.

If your company is not aggressively conducting efforts that will increase your search engine traffic, then it is time to get in the game!

ClickZ, which Jupitermedia had purchased for nearly $20 million USD, and the Search Engine Strategies trade shows, went to UK-based Incisive Media for $43 million.

The National Zoo in Washington D.C. announced Mei Xiang is the proud new mother of a baby giant panda and that the mother and child are doing fine. The birth occurred at 3:41 a.m. EDT and will make a fine addition to the only 1700 or so left in the entire world.

Changing the company logo to celebrate a particular holiday or otherwise notable event is a mainstay of search engines Ask.com and Google. Every major holiday (and sometimes, events you may not have heard of), these two engines alter their logo to a design that acknowledges the special occasion.