Search Technology team), Tim Converse (ex-Powerset) and Tuoc Vinh Luong (the VC savvy), spoke to SEW over the phone about their new iPhone app that aims to surface suggestions of what movies to watch, restaurants and dishes you'll like and books...
Working at Powerset, Tim Converse Yahoo! Here we've collected today's top news stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with search-related headlines from around the Web: From the SEW Blog:
Working at Powerset, Tim Converse No Conversion in Yahoo's Quality-Based BiddingConversions tracked by Yahoo Analytics are not part of the algorithm determining the new quality-based pricing. Yahoo Launches Search Marketing Commercial API...
Interview with Search Engineer Tim Converse, SugarRae I have recently had the chance to talk to Tim Mayer about Yahoo Search Builder and to Shashi Seth at Google about their Custom Search Engine product, and a consistent theme emerged.
Tim Converse until recently of Yahoo, now of Powerset It's a new year, full of new hope, new opportunities, and new predictions. For those of you interested in such annual prognostications, here are a few that we've collected from search and social...
The word "spam", Tim Converse Yahoo Integrates Answers Into Search Results The New York Times reports that Yahoo has struck a deal with 176 newspapers, consisting of a 7 newspaper chains to "share content, advertising and technology.
Tim Converse, the "spam fighter" at Yahoo, has a fun post he named Search engine optimization (SEO) from black to white. Yahoo's Tim Converse Colors SEOs Halloween, Yahoo's Panama, Did-It, Ask.com Mobile, MSN Links, Eric Schmidt, 30 Point Penality...
Tim Converse, the "spam fighter" at Yahoo, has a fun post he named Search engine optimization (SEO) from black to white. He tries to add nine colors between black and white. For example, a "dark gray" SEO is an SEO that "collects (aka steals...
Tim Converse OF Yahoo Talks About Aggregation Spam Yahoo Answers Launches In The UK Yahoo Removes Blog Search For Short Term - The blog community is buzzing over Yahoo removing blog search, including removing the Yahoo News integration of blog...
Tim Converse OF Yahoo Talks About Aggregation Spam Matt touched upon the obvious choices, including Google Local, MSN Local, Yahoo Local and Ask Local. On Yahoo, at least until the engine moves to its new Quality Index, advertisers willing to...
Tim Converse, the web spam fighter at Yahoo Search, wrote a very interesting blog entry explaining aggregation spam. Tim offers up this extreme analogy; Tim explains that it is hard for the search engines to draw a fine line in the sand as to what...
When I asked GoodROI to ask Tim Converse of Yahoo on his WebmasterRadio show last night, Tim replied that he was unaware of that result but it is possible that it may be a joke. Yesterday, I thought I discovered Yahoo stealing searching from Google...
More from Yahoo's Tim Converse By Gary Price, Dec. Verity will share the revenue from the sponsored links with Yahoo. Yahoo and Verity Announce Partnership By Gary Price, Dec. Brian Morrisey at DM News writes that although second-tier engines don...
Tim Converse Interview, part 2. Yahoo has quietly expanded its local business listings and rolled out a service that gives businesses control over their listings in Yahoo Local through a new content inclusion program.
The Yahoo Search Blog has posted the second part of their interview with Tim Converse, engineering manager at Yahoo! s Content group. Topics this time include robots.txt, crawler traps, and 301 redirects.
Over on the Yahoo Search Blog, An Interview with Tim Converse touches on some of the things Yahoo does to shape relevancy and fight spam. Tim Mayer from Yahoo is a veteran of that session from when we offered it several conferences ago and returns...
Tim Converse manages Yahoo Search's "content classification" group. Jeremy Zawodny's about to chat with him and puts out a call on the Yahoo Search Blog for questions to raise: Questions for Tim Converse about Content Classification?
Questions for Tim Converse about Content Classification? When most people talk about pay per click (PPC) search engine advertising, Google and Overture (Yahoo) take center stage. Desktop search battle heats up.vnunet.com (via Yahoo News) Nov 4...
Tim Converse manages Yahoo Search's "content classification" group. Questions for Tim Converse about Content Classification? Jeremy Zawodny's about to chat with him and puts out a call on the Yahoo Search Blog for questions to raise:
