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It was an incredible event. For me, this was not only my first SES conference, but my first professional conference in the search industry. It was fantastic to see so many people that I only knew from their avatars and forum names. I believe the event helps to give a real sense of the S...
This conference is insane. I'm literally too busy to share information with you. I have fantastic notes from every session, and Si is reporting from a completely seperate set of sessions - together we're trying to cover as much as possible in a meaningful way.The events of today includ...
John Heilemann, who has been writing about companies in Silicon Valley for the last ten years, has one of the most comprehensive, critical & engaging pieces on the corporat...
For many designers & graphic artists, a first experience with disambiguation will be during an image search at a site like Getty One or Corbis. We'll conduct a search for "marine" and a pag...
Even a great technological innovation like PageRank will eventually be supplanted. For a web information retreival model, PR has already had a remarkable long life, yet its downfall has been predicted across the web by some of the very best in the industry. Here'...
Many have surmised that un-natural link building is reponsible for ranking issues. This may very well be true, as much of the evidence I've been able to review on the issue of sites in Google's sandbox have displayed similiar features. Links have typically come in fast and furious at...
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Many times when reading through complex threads, research papers or even blogs by some of the more advanced SEOs in the industry, I get lost in the meaning of terms and an entire paragraph or document can be lost to my ignorance. Luckily, great resources like the...
WordNet is a lexical database (a collection of words) that has been used by major search engines and IR research projects for many years. The database can be accessed through Princeton University's website and even ...
An incredibly revealing post on some theories about Google's changes over the past 12 months was first noted by TW. However, the quantity and quality of information p...
I've blogged previously on the subject of Del.icio.us, but this time I want to examine our own, specific field and the links that spring up from the tagging community. Del.icio.us has a large base of users, yet few of these issue SEO tags...
At the end fo February, representatives from all four of the major search engines - Ask, Yahoo!, MSN & Google - will be attending a conference on the topic of search engine indexing. A fantastic ...
One of the first requirements for anyone considering building or operating a website should be Steve Krug's miraculous book - Don't Make Me Think. This short, 3-hour read has been next to my...