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The team behind Search Engine Watch today, and the editors, reporters and contributors who have covered search for 28 years, in almost 30,000 articles.
Radu Tyrsina
Radu is a media entrepreneur who started out as a technology writer, with reporting cited by WIRED, the BBC and The Guardian. He has spent more than a decade building and running digital publications, and now works on Search Engine Watch full time, rebuilding it for a search world shaped by AI.
“Search Engine Watch already has a history that cannot be recreated. My responsibility is to build a future worthy of it.”
Sachin Patel
Senior Reporter
Tracks new Google and Bing features, tests and outages in the results, often before they are announced.
Venkat
Senior Reporter
Covers Chrome, Google apps and AI Mode, and spots new features before they go public.
Martin Ashmere
Contributor
Writes on technical SEO: crawling, indexing bugs and how AI engines choose their sources.
Claire Moraa
Contributor
Covers AI tools and AI shopping, with hands-on tests of marketing research methods.
Julian Vennick
Contributor
Covers AI agents, crawler controls and which Google ranking claims actually hold up.
Founding era
1997–2007
Danny Sullivan
Founder & Editor-in-Chief
Launched the site in 1996 as A Webmaster’s Guide to Search Engines and ran it until 2006, when he left to co-found Search Engine Land.
Chris Sherman
Executive Editor
Edited the SearchDay newsletter and co-wrote The Invisible Web with Gary Price. Left in 2006 to help launch Search Engine Land.
Gary Price
News Editor, SearchDay
Librarian and research specialist who filed most of SearchDay’s daily news. Later co-founded the INFOdocket news site.
Elisabeth Osmeloski
Managing Editor
Ran the editorial desk, the Search Engine Update newsletter and coverage of the SES conferences.
Greg Sterling
Contributing Editor
Covered local and mobile search as it took shape, from Citysearch and Yelp to the first mobile maps.
The newsroom years
2005–2013
Mike Grehan
Publisher
Ran SEW and ClickZ at Incisive Media and produced the SES conferences.
Kevin Heisler
Executive Editor
Led the newsroom through Microsoft’s 2008 bid for Yahoo and the Google–Yahoo ad deal.
Jonathan Allen
Director
Directed the site and wrote on SEO, social, and how SEW grew its own Google News traffic.
Frank Watson
Editor
Edited the daily news for six years, mostly SEO and Google.
Nathania Johnson
Editor
Ran the daily news blog at over 1,000 posts a year: Google, analytics, social, mobile.
Danny Goodwin
Associate Editor
Covered Google, Bing and the Panda and Penguin years. Later joined Search Engine Land.
Kevin Newcomb
Staff Writer
Wrote the daily Search Headlines & Links roundup and ran the SEW Experts series.
Barry Schwartz
News Contributor
Posted 1,135 SEW Blog items in 2006. Founder of Search Engine Roundtable.
Greg Jarboe
Video Search Columnist
Covered YouTube and video search for twelve years. President of SEO-PR.
Miranda Miller
Writer
Covered Google, Facebook and social search, plus guides on content quality.
Jennifer Slegg
Writer
Tracked Google search and ad changes. Founder of The SEM Post.
Columnists & contributors
2001–2023
Eric Enge
SEO analysis; founder of Stone Temple
Jessica Lee
Google, social and PPC news
Thom Craver
Google, Bing and analytics
Mark Jackson
SEO strategy
Michael Boland
Local and mobile search
Jason Tabeling
Paid search strategy
Justilien Gaspard
Link building
Kevin Ryan
Search advertising trends
John Rampton
Google and AdWords news
Carrie Hill
Small-business search marketing
Chris Boggs
SEO and in-house teams
Ron Jones
Search marketing training
Melissa Mackey
PPC and AdWords
Josh McCoy
Technical SEO and analytics
Sage Lewis
Links and SEO
Grant Crowell
Video and podcast search
David Szetela
PPC and contextual ads
Clark Boyd
Voice and visual search
Kristine Schachinger
Technical SEO and security
Tim Ash
Landing page optimization
Erik Qualman
Social media; author of Socialnomics
Joseph Kerschbaum
PPC account strategy
Dave Davies
Local and organic SEO
Michael Bonfils
International search: Baidu, Yandex
Peter van der Graaf
Link building
Lisa Raehsler
AdWords and Bing Ads
Aaron Shear
SEO for large sites
Luke Richards
SEO news and tools
Andy Favell
Mobile web and AMP