Search Engine Watch Blog:
Are you going to Search Engine Strategies New York, which will be held March 23-26, 2009? Of course you are. It takes less than a New York minute to make that decision. SES New York is a not-to-be-missed event in the search industry. I’ve been attending each and every year since 2004. And I attended SES Boston in 2002 a (Read More)
Search Engine Journal:
I have already blogged on using dictionaries for keyword research. Most of the online resources mentioned in that post are based on traditional English dictionaries that offer accurate definitions, grammatically correct phrases and usage patterns.The interactive nature of the Internet has made room for a new linguistic tool (Read More)
David Harry - Trail of the Fire Horse:
How search engines could get granular One area that is worth looking at for SEO in 2009 (for me at least) is page segmentation. Now this approach really isn’t new and I came across papers as far back as 1997 and beyond. But unsurprisingly most IR methods don’t just appear over night. The big three, (of searc (Read More)
Search Engine Watch Blog:
The news coming out of this year's CES is turning out to be a showcase for the way things are changing for the internet, which in turns affect how people use search (for both searching and marketing).First, Microsoft had its major Live Search announcements. Then, we saw a device with Android to compete with the iPod Touch.B (Read More)
Search Engine Watch Blog:
If you have web applications as part of a linking strategy or other online marketing strategy, be sure you don't have delays of 5 seconds or more. That's the moment when business performance really starts being affected, according to new data released by Aberdeen Group.For every second after the 5 second mark:Page views dec (Read More)
Search Engine Watch Blog:
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and President, Entertainment & Devices Division Robbie Bach took to the stage at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to make three major announcements about Live Search.They are:Dell: Beginning February 1, Dell will offer Live Search on the majority of its consumer and small busines (Read More)
Search Engine Journal:
Those who have been criticizing the invasion of privacy posed by Google Street View may find some reprieve from their complaints and perhaps appreciate one positive ways by ways the service can actually help the society. More particularly the police authority in solving crime, as in the case of a kidnapped girl somewhere in (Read More)
Search Engine Journal:
In a move which may influence the search association mobile phone users have with their search engine of choice, Verizon has chosen Microsoft Search over Google as its default search engine of choice.Verizon is expected to be the #1 mobile carrier in the US after its planned acquisition of Alltell this week and the move cou (Read More)