Click Here – The Importance of Anchor Text
Wednesday, 23 January 2008
There is a fascinating SERP artifact which almost prompts me to question whether or not there is no more valuable focus in SEO than anchor text. Anchor text you ask, how can that possibly be most important?? Well in truth, I’m not supposing it is but give these searches a moment of your time. “Click
- Published in Fun, Natural Search / SEO
Improving Search through Google’s Distributed File System
Thursday, 08 November 2007
For those of you interested my post last month about how search engines really work, Doug Judd has written a slightly technical brief about the Google File System and specifically, how it can be improved. Doug is leading an open-source project which builds on top of distributed file systems like GFS, HDFS, and Kosmos, bringing
How Search Engines Work
Tuesday, 09 October 2007
About a week ago, Kosmix, one of the few emerging businesses doing anything significant in Search, announced the release of a search technology that gives them a significant advantage in the search space: the Kosmos File System. With all our talk of algorithms and indexes, I’m sure you realize that an engine isn’t as simple
- Published in Advertising, Search
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
AMA Hot Topic Series Seattle: Search Engine Marketing
Thursday, 30 August 2007
Out of one conference and in to another! With hardly enough time to breathe from a highly successful SES San Jose, I’ll be in Seattle September 10th with netconcept’s Stephan Spencer, Alan Rimm-Kaufmann, Christopher Alan, Sahala Swenson, and Neil Patel for the American Marketing Association’s Hot Topic Series on Search Engine Marketing. We’ll share a
- Published in Conferences / Events, Search