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Startups Solving Founders’ Problems are Failing

Monday, 30 September 2024 by Paul O'Brien

Here’s a problem that you might address as a startup founder: other startup founders struggle to find problems to take on, to come up with ideas to address, and to expose issues in industries, so that they might launch a successful venture presenting a solution to that problem. How do I know this is a

Published in Industry, Insights / Research, Startups

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Explaining the Importance of Information to a Company

Thursday, 26 March 2020 by Paul O'Brien

A bit of what concerns me about society, our economy, is that this topic isn’t FAR more discussed. HOW you explain the importance of information to a company is actually really simple, in my experience. You SHOW how information will impact the business. I simply do this… And then I ask… What caused what happened

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Published in Analytics, Insights / Research

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Rand Announces Advanced SEO Analytics Engine Linkscape at SMX East

Monday, 06 October 2008 by Paul O'Brien

I’ve just seen the future of link analytics and it is SEOmoz. Perhaps the most engrossing and entertaining presentation at SMX East was Rand Fishkin’s introduction of Linkscape, an advanced link intelligence engine delivering rich data to website owners and SEOs regarding inlinks, related anchor text, trust, and rank. SEOmoz has indexed over 200M domains

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Published in Analytics, Insights / Research, Natural Search / SEO, Search, Vendors / Agencies

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The Definitive Search Engine Result Comparison – An Investigative Report

Tuesday, 01 May 2007 by Paul O'Brien

I’ve received enough praise and criticism of my perspective on Ask’s new campaign that I felt compelled to do investigate the quality of each engine in more detail. As you can imagine, these results are completely biased, being scored alone by my opinion; nonetheless, I felt the experience worth sharing. Within five groups of terms,

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Published in Insights / Research, Search

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Search Behavior and a Proxy Site (yes, its a full day!)

Wednesday, 06 December 2006 by Paul O'Brien

The holidays sure keep us busy don’t they!? I confess my recent intermittent posts are not a result of the busy season but attention to new research and my support of a couple remarkable blogs. I anxiously await the results of a comprehensive study of online searcher behavior correlated with online activity and time spent,

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Published in Comparison Shopping, Insights / Research, Natural Search / SEO, Search, Vendors / Agencies

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