Wolfram Alpha, it’s Knowledge Engine Not Search Engine

May 16, 2009

New technology term to add to the lexicon: “Knowledge Engine”
Very distinctly different from a search engine in that you are not intended to “Find” anything at all, then leave to go look at one of the results you found. The intent here is to learn something and gain knowledge by providing queries to the Wolfram [...]

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SEM or SEO? No Both for Most Search Teams

May 8, 2009

At the MediaPost Search Insider Summit, I got the opportunity to join a panel on social media and search with Darrin Shamo of Zappos and panel moderator Bob Heyman of MediaSmith (and co-author of the book Digital Engagement). I’m not going to discuss that panel here and will leave that to another post. But an [...]

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Adsense Comes to Analytics for Webmasters

April 30, 2009
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Is Examiner.com Dominating Search Results Near Yours?

March 22, 2009

I’m a long-time subscriber to Google News and Blog alerts. They’re a great way to stay up to date with any topic and I subscribe to several alerts on subjects, companies and categories I’m interested in across a wide range of topics. Something rather startling has occurred to me in watching those results across multiple [...]

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Canonical URL Link Element – Not Meta Tag

March 1, 2009

Last week we learned of the magical new Link Element which was announced at SMX West which was purported to resolve a longstanding problem with duplicate content by pointing search engines to a single URL for pages which could have multiple paths to the same content.
Well it turns out that the single solution is only [...]

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Canonical Tag Ends Dupe Content, Consolidates PageRank

February 15, 2009

Big News in an SMX West announcement by search engines last week! There is a new tag to place in the “Head” section of your web pages which can resolve forever the problem of duplicate content in search!
Something many SEO’s have fought for years are things such as session ID’s, tracking ID’s, referrer tags, clickstream [...]

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Marissa Mayer Leaving Google? Don’t Laugh

December 31, 2008

There are reports that Marissa Mayer is leaving Google. Barry Schwartz commented briefly about it today on SearchEngineLand and he points to a report coming from Valleywag yesterday. I’ve heard Mayer speak at Search Engine Strategies (SES) San Jose in August of 2007 where I took a few photographs of her conversation with Danny Sullivan, [...]

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eHow Wins Mashable’s “How To” Open Web Award Category

December 12, 2008

eHow.com won the Bloggers Choice for the “How To” category of the Mashable Open Web Awards! Rich Noguchi, community manager for eHow, announced the win this morning on the eHow Blog.
This comes on the heels of getting a bit of Television love from New York Fox Affiliate WNYW where eHow GM Greg Boudewijn along with [...]

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YouTube offers Search From ALL Embedded Videos

December 7, 2008

Today I was reviewing my blog after adding a TwitPic widget to the shoulder (left side) and coincidently moved the cursor over an embedded YouTube video on the Google iPhone App when I noticed a search box appear under my cursor!
Wow, that is pretty incredible and according to the YouTube blog, they just recently added [...]

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SEO Accessibility for Visually Impaired Visitors: OdioGo

November 28, 2008

For years I’ve been interested in SEO as it related to web accessibility issues. After doing some initial research into how SEO was tied to accessibility, I wrote an article (linked above) suggesting that they are so closely linked they should be married. So far I’ve found little interest among clients in making their sites [...]

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