Lots of news today but before I start, you should know we upgraded the version of Movable Type we were using across the Search Engine Roundtable and this blog. The version number change is 3.2.x to 3.3.x, please let me know if you see any weirdness. In the search world we covered topics including the
I would call myself a wanna be geek, hopefully some people think of me as a geek – but I am not a geek at the level I would like to be. Anyway, geeks tend to have lots of gadgets on them. And traveling via airlines, with the security and metal detectors are never fun.
Sometimes, when the track pad is moist from the moisture in the air, the moisture on my fingers or just some heat, the mouse control is unbearable. Just before writing the entry before this one, the whole entry was deleted because of a track pad issue, accidently hitting the refresh button at the top of
Yea, I thought we were almost done but then we came back to my in-laws this week, unplanned, and found more items that need to be brought back to New York or returned. So that means we need to dig out some more sometime over the next week or so. I am just not sure
Slow day for me in terms of writing about search topics. I did post about five items and here they are. I discussed Yahoo’s link map tool, a new Google filter being talked about, and Google’s approved 90 million dollar approved settlement. We also covered that Yahoo launched a new web crawler that is more
Via /. it appears that “Jani Taskinen, one of the lead developers of the Zend Engine (the engine that powers PHP)” has left due to some political reasons in the community. Check out this message: Thank you all for the last 6 years or so. It has been fun (sometimes) and many times not so
So as you know, I am in St. Louis this week. We drove by this Amoco station, which is now a BP station and I was amazed by the size of this sign. I had to come back to the camera, so I did. Look at how big this sign is. It must be some
Today in search, I personally covered topics on Google AdWord geo specific ads, Google AdWords quality score ideas, Google search rankings update and if Google was down or not. In addition we discussed more annoyances with Yahoo Search Marketing, them partnering with British Telcom and a very cool new Yahoo link analysis tool. Microsoft hired
I often get emails from spammers (marketers) saying that they can rank my site in the top results (like I want that). I delete them or they get caught by my spam filters. But this is the first email, I remember, getting from MarketSmart Interactive, you know, aka Keywords Ranking, aka WebSourced. Here it is
Today we covered that Google is not displaying “invalid clicks” on your AdWords reports. Shawn goes against the Motion Picture Association of America and more. We document the Yahoo “Save To My Web” button on Yahoo! Directory pages. Microsoft conducts focus groups while Google plays on their Google Jet with fake Google Toolbars wandering around
