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Where we’re going, we won’t need websites
As voice becomes dominant in search, and users turn to social media, apps and news aggregators for their content – and not to mention the rise in virtual…
Could Bing Ever Overtake Google in Search?
Google has dominated search, but Microsoft has a real opportunity to influence searcher behavior and Bing adoption through the integration of Bing…
Google in 1998: New Easter Egg Takes You Back in Time
To celebrate its 15th birthday, Google decided to share a neat Easter egg showing how Google used to look in 1998. To…
Paying it Forward (With a Great Tip)
There's a tendency, whenever people want to learn about SEO/SEM, to seek the experts to learn from. Setting aside the often difficult…
Yahoo Axes AltaVista Search Engine, Axis Search App
Yahoo, as part of their efforts to focus on specific web properties, has decided to close the search engine AltaVista. Along with…
Your Hidden PPC Prospect: Google
Once you grok the basic Google concept (a win for the searcher is a win for Google), AdWords becomes not easy, but…
R.I.P. Delicious, AltaVista, Alltheweb & 5 More Yahoo Products
The hits just keep coming at Yahoo. A day after laying off about 4 percent of employees and shuttering Yahoo Video, a…
How to Keep Up To Date in Search
The search space is changing on a daily basis. Here's are some tips on how you can keep track of the latest…
Yahoo Continues Circling the Drain: Big Layoffs Likely
Yahoo is expected to announce significant layoffs next month, with reports ranging from 10 and 20 percent, or anywhere from 650 to…
Yahoo Appoints Ross Levinsohn as New EVP of Americas
Yesterday’s rumors are today’s news and in this case the news is that Yahoo has hired former News Corp exec, Ross Levinsohn.…
Happy Birthday Google. 12 Years On, Then & Now
Google turns 12 today. Which, in human terms, means it is almost teenager! Which also means that there are high school kids…
Should Google be Regulated?
Google's "Mayday update" sparked calls for algorithm transparency. Here's why that's a bad idea.
The Rumors of SEO’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Mike McDonald of WebProNews Videos interviewed me recently at OMS 2010, aka SES San Diego, for a story entitled, “The Death (Or…
Black Hat versus White Hat or New Hat versus Old Hat?
At SES London 2010, there was an unconventional session held at the bar of the Hilton London Islington Hotel entitled “Black Hat/White…
Four New Signals in Search
Search engines are trying to improve search quality by looking at signals such as load time, click data, Web references, and social…
Are Search Engine Optimizers Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists?
First of all, a shout out to Joanna Hogan (surfwrite), who asked for my thoughts on the post by Derek Powazek entitled,…
The Speed Of The Web: Do We Realize How Far We Have Come
You hear it all the time, “the world moves fast” with high speed connections and wireless access, we have come a long…
The Great Link Buying Debate
The topic of paid links created a great deal of discussion at SES San Jose 2007, and here's why.
Yahoo Testing New Query Refinement Tools
Yahoo's new Search Assist goes beyond existing query-suggestion to offer related categories gleaned from the top 20 pages of search results.
First Principles in Search
First principles form a core set of working assumptions, hypotheses, and key beliefs about a single area of interest.
Job-Hunt.org: An Old-Fashioned Success Story
Building solid relationships, and doing some old-fashioned marketing, can be a successful business strategy.
In the Second Week of New Year’s, My SearchDay Gave to Me:
Eight firms a-buying, seven forums buzzing, six engines searching, five Google things...
Live’s Erik Selberg On Microsoft’s Tough Search Challenge
Talk about the echo chamber coming full circle. The stats on Microsoft’s search share decline that I posted last week were commented…
Hello Natural Language Search, My Old Over-Hyped Search Friend
This is a rant. It’s a rant from over 10 years of watching people trot out natural language search as the “killer”…
Rebranding Ask.com
How do you engineer a major overhaul to your web site to increase traffic and user satisfaction? Ask.com's Senior User Experience Analyst…
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