Whew! Did I just sound like a commercial for these guys or what? Anyway, let me explain why I like Search.com so much. Being a metasearch search engine, it literally gives you best of all worlds. It searches Google, Ask Jeeves, Business.com, Kanoodle, LookSmart, MSN, Open Directory, plus dozens of other leading search engines.

However, it's important to point out that they apply their own technology to these results to ensure that you get absolute best results possible as fast as possible. Search.com also has some useful and fun features.

A feature I particularly like is you can actually preview web sites before you click on them, with their thumbnail option, by selecting "show thumbnails" or "hide thumbnails" on search results page.

Another fun feature is you can personalize Search.com, by selecting one of five color schemes using toolbar on front page.

You can also narrow and fine-tune your search, by clicking on tabs located above search box. This will limit your search to Downloads, Shopping, Games, or "More" where you can research by topic.

Search.com also has customizable category searches where you can personally select sources they search by using their customization feature accessible by clicking "advanced" under search box or any link on research by topic page.

Now, all of these things notwithstanding, I have to warn you, there is nothing aesthetically pleasing about Search.com. It's a very basic, plain looking search engine.

However, if you can get past cosmetics issue, I think you'll find Search.com delivers some big time results!

Dean Phillips is an Internet marketing expert, writer, publisher and entrepreneur. Questions? Comments? Dean can be reached at mailto: dean@lets-make-money.net

Now let’s appeal to figures. When managers of a software or web design company plan to have resource to outsourcing, they usually aim to cut down expenses to 30% and more. I suppose that starting not only from labor hours, but also technicality, expenses can be cut down to 50%. These figures may be a little bit different depending on outsourcer’s geographical situation. As I already mentioned, if working with such countries as Russia and Ukraine, profit gets still more. And it is while quality is of same high level.

Year by year greater and greater number of Western companies realize advantages of outsourcing and collaborate with Eastern companies. As IDC’s and Meta Group’s research show, 60% of midsized companies resort to outsourcing in IT development and web design. Forrester Research foretells that within next 15 years 3.3 millions of jobs and $136 billions will move abroad.

Comparing different types of outsourcing, namely – first and second types, it must be said that second one makes more profit since cost value in this case will be less. The same reason is for buying a ready product or service by a company that is situated in Ukraine or Russia. Some companies are engaged exceptionally in reselling. That means that they find clients, pass an order to an outsourcer, pass ready product/service to a client and get profit that amounts to 100% and more.

Harking back to words of some people who tell that outsourcers “steal” Western specialist’s work, I could say as follows. Economy controls situation. It is market.

Dmitrie Highduke, TheAnotherWorld, http://theanotherworld.com/