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Facebook v. Google?

Monday, 03 January 2011 by
A GigaOm article today, followed by a rash of calls and emails from folks wanting an opinion about the latest Goldman Sachs investment in Facebook, spurned this article. I’m troubled by the lack of distinction between Google and Facebook, with almost every query asking for insight to how Google’s (or Twitter’s) growth and valuations reflect
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So you have a web startup idea…

Friday, 05 November 2010 by
Who doesn’t have a web startup idea? By my last count, I have… let me see…. 13. No 14. Unfortunately, I have roughly the same plan to get them built. Guess that’s not going to work. I’d tell you about them but you’d have to sign an NDA. Thanks to Kevin Liu at Outright for
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Yahoo’s New Search IU – Universal Search Finally Getting Somewhere?

Friday, 08 October 2010 by
The promise of Universal Search or One Search has, for years, waffled between the promise of a better search experience and the reality of results diluted with local listings, videos, images, social network chatter, and other content often irrelevant to the needs of the user. Simply, the idea behind Universal Search is that one set
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Identifying Comment Spam with Google

Wednesday, 21 October 2009 by
I was torn on how to title this post; this is either Further proof of the depths to which Google’s bot will go to crawl your content or An alternative to Akismet Have I lost you? Let me start from the beginning. I have an unhealthy interest in comment spam. It sits in a different
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Sign of the economic times? Google Lets Brands Run More Than One Search Campaign on a Keyword

Thursday, 10 September 2009 by
Did I fall asleep?  I turn my attention from Search for a few weeks (okay, so it’s really been a bit longer) and I return to find major companies running more than one campaign in paid search! To many of you this may not be news; like I said, I’m playing catch up.  Just the
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Google Please Work on the Blog Search Algorithm!

Wednesday, 17 June 2009 by
One aspect of the regular search algorithm that seems of increasing importance to blog search is authority; page rank, or what ever you want to call it. Simply, ensuring that blog search fosters the inherent premise of a blog by promoting real bloggers. I LOVE blog search. I can’t stress enough how much I prefer
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What It Feels Like… to maybe have someone who writes for Esquire to have heard about your idea?

Friday, 10 October 2008 by
Leave it to Esquire to bring the Library analogy to explain search and SEO to the masses. In the November ’08 issue, an endorsement of The Public Library from Esquire’s Meryl Rothstein reads, …a librarian is like a Google that actually finds what you’re looking for and never clutters your screen with porn. That’s sort
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