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How the Wal-mart Grinch Stole Black Friday Link Love
When Wal-mart invoked the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to get online news sites to remove links to its Black Friday sales circular, Wal-mart missed…
Why Retailers Should Be Day Trippers to SES Chicago
Okay, so I’m an old Beatles fan. But there are lots of very current reasons why retailers should consider becoming day trippers to Search…
Alessio Signorini Tapped as Director of Search Technology at OneRiot
Social search engine OneRiot has a new Director of Search Technology and it’s Alessio Signorini, former Director of Technology at Ask.com. While at Ask.com,…
CitySquares.com to Begin National Expansion
CitySquares.com began as an online neighborhood community site for 7 neighborhoods in Boston. Over the summer, they expanded to include New England and recently…
AOL Releases Top Searches for 2008
In the ongoing end of year list season, AOL has released its top searches for 2008. Unlike Yahoo and Ask.com, AOL inexplicably only released…
Yahoo Adds Search Assist to Image Search
Yahoo has added Search Assist to their image search. If you’re not aware, Search Assist is Yahoo’s technology that brings up search suggestions when…
SearchDay | High-Value Link Building is Hard Work
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: High-Value Link Building is Hard Work; An Open Letter to Retailers Concerning Black Friday; Cyber Monday Spending…
High-Value Link Building is Hard Work
Looking at cost-per-acquired-link is a mistake, because it results in low-value links. How do you obtain quality links from authoritative sites? Start with these…
An Open Letter to Retailers Concerning Black Friday
When has organizing a frenzied mass of humans ever ended well in the history of mankind? The wisdom of crowds is an Internet fantasy.…
UPDATE: Jonathan Miller Seeks Funds for His VC Firm, Not Yahoo
It turns out yesterday’s news about former AOL CEO Jonathan Miller trying to gather money to buy Yahoo was false. Miller has been raising…