Is the media helping or hurting our understanding of SEO?
Friday, 25 July 2008
CNET’s Stephen Shankland has written a thorough review of Microsoft’s BrowseRank, “Microsoft tries to one-up Google PageRank” but its this perspective that really tells the story. It’s maddening to see yet another naive or deliberately misleading article on an innovation in search ranking, that perpetuates persistent misunderstanding of how search works and what makes search
- Published in Google, MSN, Search, Vertical Search
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Universal Search by Vertical
Wednesday, 30 January 2008
Can I take a moment and violate what is perhaps one of the more pervasive of the seven deadly sins? I recently had the honor of playing a role (albeit a bit part) in the release of the first blended vertical search technology. Monday, time based local search engine Zvents released Federated Local Search blending
- Published in Search, Vertical Search, Web 2.0
Finervista: A New Vertical Search Engine
Tuesday, 11 September 2007
In the age of increasingly more specialization in search, it seems there’s another segment getting attention. The paint isn’t even dry and San Francisco based Finervista seems to have experienced a successful début of an educational search platform. Serving thousands of webcasts through their searchable index, they provide a wonderful resource for business executives, legal
- Published in Insights / Research, Search, Vertical Search
TechCrunch TC9 Download
Friday, 27 July 2007
Having spent the last few hours at Michael Arrington’s TechCrunch Meet-Up, I sit here struggling to find some criticism of the event simply for the sake of a buzz worthy post. The fact is, the party was flawlessly executed from logistics to music, drinks to demos, and all with a crowd of industry elite akin
- Published in Conferences / Events, Fun, Vendors / Agencies, Vertical Search, Web 2.0