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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.