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Orlowski Talks Quality Problems at Wikipedia
(via Threadwatch) This time Andrew Orlowski is all over Wikipedia in the article: Wikipedia founder admits to serious quality problems. It’s strong stuff from a writer who is…
All the News that’s Fit to Crawl
News search engines and headline aggregators are playing an increasingly important role in the way people consume online news. These services offer…
What to Buy a Meta Search Engine? Jux2 is For Sale on eBay
Jux2 was the winner of our most recent Search Engine Watch Award for Best Meta Search Engine. It was also a great…
Nigerian Spam Legislation?
Anti-spam legislation in Nigeria?! “Any person spamming electronic messages to recipients with whom he has no previous relationship – especially the so-called…
Top Ten SEO Starting Tips
New and Improved 10 Tips to the Top at Search Engine Guide has Jill Whalen of HighRankings taking a fresh look at…
Resource Filled Webliographies (Free!) from the Association of College Research Libraries
The Association of College Research Libraries (ACRL) is one organization that’s part of the American Library Association. Each month, on our ResourceShelf…
Going CMS? Some SEO Issues To Consider
Search-Engine Friendly Content Management Systems from Shari Thurow over at ClickZ looks at issues to consider if you’re going to a content…
Big.com For Really Big Results; How About The Majors Offering The Same?
Search marketer Laura Thieme mentioned in an email to me loving Big.com. Hmm. Never heard of it. Taking a look, it’s pretty…
User Engagement Means On Their Terms
I’m only on Windows during office hours, and I never, ever use Internet Explorer. I’m hardly alone. Apple announced 6.6 percent market…
Chris Pirillo’s Gada.be: Metasearch Plus Ease of Use For Mobile Searchers
When Scoble mentions something that might be of special interest to the mobile searcher, I’m of course going to give it a…
A Free General Reference Newsletter (Fun Too!)
I thought I would toss out an FFU (free, fun, useful) monthly newsletter. This newsletter is provided by The World Almanac and…
ad:tech – Your Cred Is Slipping!
Jeez, guys – get it together! ad:tech is burgeoning in size and global reach as the online advertising industry’s all-encompassing (and theoretically,…
Beware Hosting Providers Inserting Links Into Your Content
Rogue host changing customers’ websites over at SEO Forum is an interesting read and warning to those to watch their hosting service.…
Weblogs.com Ping Server Bought By Verisign
Dave Winer’s Weblogs.com ping service has been purchased by Verisign. Dave does a rundown on the sale here. Verisign does a rundown…
VNU Buys Into Blogs; Denton Giggles to the Bank
This is the first blog publishing deal that feels really corporate. A pact was reached between Nick Denton’s Gawker Media and VNU,…
On Library Card Catalogs, OPACs, The Perfect Search & Teaching Searchers
My mind is going a million miles a minute over the whole “Perfect Search” discussion that kicked off this week. Instead of…
Pimp My Searching: Internet Movie Database
Danny mentioned yesterday we’ve been planning a “Pimp My Search Engine” series to help readers get more out of their favorite search…
More On Query Refinement, The Human Scale Problem & Creating The Search Dialog
Yesterday, I wrote of how search engines could do a better job of query refinement and indeed did so in the past,…
SEO Big With Small & Medium Sized Businesses
No Guesswork Here: Web Sites Work For SMBs at InternetNews.com has a few search stat tidbits worth noting. A survey has found…
BodyBuilding.com Builds $48 Million In Sales Off Natural Search
Via Gary Stein, How BodyBuilding.com pumps up sales by word of mouth marketing from Internet Retailer looks at how BodyBuilding.com expects to…
Is Your Site “Trust Worthy”?
Consumer Reports WebWatch wants “Trust Worthy” publishers to raise their hands — in a full-page October 24 “New York Times” print ad.…
Update On Search Ranking Factors List
Earlier I posted how Rand Fishkin had created a list of nearly 100 factors that search engines might consider in ranking web…
Robert Scoble Wants What We Had — Better Query Refinement. So Do I!
Robert Scoble’s just finished reading John Battelle’s book The Search and ponders creating a new chapter to follow John’s ending one on…
Being Indexed Versus Being Ranked
SEO Practices: Indexing and Ranking from Mike Grehan at ClickZ is a good reminder that being indexed by a search engine isn’t…
Clusty Celebrates Its First Birthday
It was a year ago today when Chris and I published our introduction to Vivisimo’s new metasearch/dynamic clustering product for the consumer…
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