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American Apparel is a very clean, alternative look at the clothing industry as a whole and it's well-reflected on their highly simplistic but ultimately seductive website. The online store does a particularly good job expre...
Paralleling the topic of yesterday's "humor as link-building" subject, today I've stumbled across a site called NetDisaster that will take a given URL and turn the page into a private battlefield for Martians, meteors and other untimely disasters....
Greg Boser (WebGuerilla) calls the just released Google patent (US Patent Application ...
The measurable risk of any particular SEO tactic is very hard to measure. After all, experimentation with successful sites in the SERPs is not only dangerous, but also expensive and time-consuming, while avoiding risks by using precautionary measures is virtually costless.Si...
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Urchin, a well-known web analytics tool that runs on hundreds of thousands of websites, has been acquired by Google. While many in the search industry are surprised by this move, I see it as more of a calculated strategy of Google's to g...
The University of Massachusetts, Amherst houses a project called the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval. The project is focused on solving many of the IR problems in web search and document collection search. Some of the more fascina...
EGOL from SEOChat asked me to blog on the subject of the "most valuable link". The MVL award is something I think I'll blog on monthly and perhaps give...
The prediction power of a group is frighteningly accurate. Get a large number of individuals together and ask them to vote on the answer to a question and (as long as it has nothing to do with politics) you've got a nearly foolproof answering system. This group int...
In reference to a thread at SEOChat on the anatomy of a good keyword by Robert Paulson, I have deleted the specific terms out of one of my own keyword spreadsheets and am offering it for download. You're welcome to re-use this a...
Craig Newmark has put together one of the most revolutionary, popular and well-thought out communities on the web. It's 1996 style design has not inhibited growth, but rather allowed the community to flourish and the largely free model has created a competitor fo...
These guys are ripe for acquisition. Clusterizer, who operates the technology behind the iBoogie clustering meta-search engine, has a terrific description of the clustering process an...
Two excellent reports were released over the past week, highlighting growth and trends in the worldwide Internet adoption and growth market, Europe in particular. The first report, from E-consultancy is called the ...
Fellow UW graduate, Heidi Adkinson runs two very relevant websites on the subject of her Master's thesis - e-commerce research. The sites both offer some very good information on the subject of web design and...
A great source for content, especially images & tools is the Creative Commons licensing website. The search system enables you to find the content you're seeking and also provides a great outlet for developers looki...