Our paleo dieter is a 32-year-old male named Kevin, who lives in Denver, Colorado. He’s thinking of training for a 10K trail run in Boulder in a couple of months. I’ll probably just research online and then head out to the Boulder Running Company...
NationMaster also recently rolled out StateMaster.com, a sister site that offers similar data mining on US state statistics, using sources such as the US Census Bureau, FBI, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and a variety of non-profit...
Namely, understand and capitalize on your competitive advantage, focus on sound marketing principles, and use your ingenuity and creativity to run circles around big companies with big budgets.Patricia Hursh is president and founder of SmartSearch...
Mary Ellen Bates is the principal of Bates Information Services, a research and consulting business based in Boulder, Colorado. RSS feeds offer a great way to pull in interesting, relevant information—but finding good feeds can be a challenge.
Mary Ellen Bates is the principal of Bates Information Services, a research and consulting business based in Boulder, Colorado. Google Scholar is an effort by Google to point you to either a summary or, occasionally, the full text of "scholarly...
Mary Ellen Bates is the principal of Bates Information Services, a research and consulting business based in Boulder, Colorado. Though we rely heavily on search engines these days, sometimes a good "old fashioned" human edited directory is a better...
Patricia Hursh is founder of SmartSearch Marketing a search engine marketing agency specializing in lead generation and customer acquisition solutions, located in Boulder, Colorado. But when search engines change, should you follow suit?
Mary Ellen Bates is the principal of Bates Information Services, a research and consulting business based in Boulder, Colorado. I call this information sleuthing approach thinking outside the search box.
The site is clearly a work in progress—for example, I looked for restaurant reviews in my own local area of Boulder-Longmont Colorado, and saw an intriguing review for a place called "Cosmic Kitchen" that I hadn't heard of.
Mary Ellen Bates is the principal of Bates Information Services, a research and consulting business based in Boulder, Colorado. These days, web search is dominated by giants, and it's rare to see the emergence of a new potentially world-class...
Patricia Hursh is president and founder of SmartSearch Marketing, a full-service search engine marketing firm headquartered in Boulder, Colorado. No, it's not another search ad vendor, nor a new conversion tracking tool.
Patricia Hursh is the Lead Search Strategist at SmartSearch Marketing, a full-service search engine marketing agency located in Boulder, Colorado. To accommodate new ideas, most have to reallocate money from other programs, going through a...
Mary Ellen Bates is the principal of Bates Information Services, a research and consulting business based in Boulder, Colorado. Looking for an obscure fact, and need the answer right now? Forget search engines: Specialized search tools can help you...
This Boulder, Colorado company (part of OCLC) has been around since 1998 and offers their service to thousands of libraries around the globe. Well, Google Print for books is here. Amazon's "Search Inside the Book" has been around for a while.
Patricia Hursh is a search engine advertising consultant and workshop facilitator with SmartSearch Marketing in Boulder, Colorado. What does it take to have a successful search marketing campaign in Europe?
Patricia Hursh is a search engine advertising consultant and workshop facilitator with SmartSearch Marketing in Boulder, Colorado. Search engines, most notably Google, are pushing the limits of trademark law, allowing anyone to use these protected...
Patricia Hursh is a search engine advertising consultant and workshop facilitator with SmartSearch Marketing in Boulder, Colorado. Search engines, most notably Google, are pushing the limits of trademark law, allowing anyone to use these protected...
Mary Ellen Bates is the principal of Bates Information Services, a research and consulting business based in Boulder, Colorado. Even if you consider yourself a Google expert, these "hidden" tools and resources let you push the search engine's...