I figured that some creative Silicon Valley types could use a prod in the right direction about areas of search verticals that are still lacking major players (or high-quality players). Here's just a few that I think would be great to add to the search repertoire: Sports Search - Browse by year, team, sport, championship, stats, college, professional, etc. Th...
Matt McGee is just begging to be put on the speaker circuit for local search with his exceptional Guide to Local Search Marketing. Matt's done an excellent job of showing (not just telling) where results come from in the local and map search engines and helping marketers to navigate the waters at major local search sour...
Although it takes a little while to load, Fresh Logic Studios' Atlas map system is pretty amazing. The application allows for worldwide directions, zooms in with incredible detail and has a very spiffy interface. I did some basic testing to see how robust the system was, and I'd say that with the possible exception of ...
Barry's rounded up the crew for yet another great question asked to the moderators at SERoundtable. This one focuses oin alternative search engines (and the engines moderators use in their personal lives - I'm a tad confused as to what that means... "personal life?"). Viggen asks: ...
I'm wondering what people's general opinion of the new Ask commercials are. Do you find them enoyable? amusing? annoying? Do you think they'll effectively brand Ask.com in the minds of consumers? Do you think they'll increase traffic to the Ask domain? Any idea what their ...
I had a chat late last night with Gary Price of ResourceShelf. He shared some sites that provide information that will make your spine shiver and your blood turn cold. Just look at what's available: First off, there's the relatively innocuous, but fun, FlightAware, which enables you to track the comings and ...
If you've ever used any type of automated program to do search queries on the search engines, no doubt you've come across the infamous Google message stating that you've got a virus and they're not gonna let you search. After a few hours this problem goes away and you can perform your automated queries again.Yahoo does the same thing and only blocks you for a few hours. And...
Quadzilla posed this question at SEOBlackHat back in March: We all know the deal. Google is making a killing off of Adsense on s...
Via Gary Price - Exalead, a major competitior in the 2nd tier search engines, has an incredible array of advanced operators to help sophisticated users refine queries. The offerings include: An advanced search page with the ability to modify v...
So I'm playing around with the MSN operators as per my post from last week and I stumble upon the holy grail of link searches: (linkdomain:kennedyfunding.com ...
Thanks to Brett Franson from Denver, who gave me the heads up on a search tool from the University of Indiana called CenSEARCHip. It allows you to look at the variations in Google search results between the US and countries that actively censor the results (France, China and Germany currently). I tried a search for Tiananmen and go...
I was recently doing some in-depth log analysis and came across with two search engines / bots: (mozdex and MJ12bot) that I find very useful and hope them the very best .The first bot belongs to mozDex...
Am I crazy, or do multiple linkdomains at MSN actually produce sensible results? Check out this search: (linkdomain:seomoz.org | linkdomain:threadwatch.org | linkdomain:seo-scoop.com) I think it's showing sites that link t...
I got an invite to the new MSN AdCenter this morning and while signing up for a test account, came across this interesting piece: Gender and age preferences is something new - and probably something very exciting for ad targeters. I think this is going to be the direction we ...
