Mark Glaser, who runs PBS' MediaShift blog, wants your input on how video search from Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Blinkx, etc. is performing - what you can find, what you can't and how it all works. Now maybe I’m searching for something that’s squarely in the hands of NBC...
For those in the world of link and traffic metrics who think Alexa is totally bonkers (I've actually found it to be relatively accurate for comparison use), there's an alternative - PubSub. PubSub offers aggregated data on link and popularity metrics for websites with blogs/feeds. They also have some cool subscription features based on the sites they track... ...
I was notified by Michael at Social Patterns that Alexa opened up their web index to automated tool builders and users of all k...
Dogpile, the metasearch engine that is primarily known to SEO/Ms thank to their affiliation with Wordtracker (serving the primary portion of that firm's keyword data) is doing some product placement ads in primetime TV to help bolster their share of the search market. No word yet on whether it's working, but hopefully...
How can one man blog so much? Acutally, the last time I hung out with Gary, he was whipping through data sources and maps and census information and a thousand sites I had barely enough time to jot down (despite spending almost an hour in front of his laptop in the San Jose speaker ready room). Gary is seriously obsessed with culling information and finding the latest in data aggregatio...
OK, folks. We've got a new contender to add to our list of social tagging / collective bookmarking sites. In SEO, the more the merrier, but in that industry, you're only as strong as your community. Shoutwire (the newcomer) is pretty...
At SEOChat, organicseo has posted a thread on Lexxe.com. I didn't have high hopes, but I performed several searches with very satisfactory results. The clustering technology is a good feature, and the s...
Last Saturday night I fell asleep on a friend's couch after watching a really funny television program. I couldn't remember the name until yesterday, when a visitor to our offices mentioned it - My Name is Earl. I'm not typically much of an Ask user, bu...
If you're not familiar with Kayak.com, you're probably paying too much for airfare. The site is an online aggregator of content from sites like Expedia, Orbitz, Travelocity, JetBlue, United, Alaska and thousands more (they also do hotels...
Unlike my interviews with MSN, where everything is controlled by a legal and PR team who removes all the good stuff from their responses, this video has a real look inside the engine that powers MSN. When they start talking about query-independent features (like importance) and query-dependent features (like relevance to the ter...
One of my biggest rants with MSN Search has been their weighting for physical location of webserver. It is totally incredible and beyond any reasonable measures. Before you read any further, it is important you know some background information. My company, ...
I just joined the Ad Club of Seattle in the hopes of meeting some good people I can recruit away from the tradtional ad business into our nefarious circle (insert devious grin icon). As I was checking out u...
As much as I like their cool zebra logo, it appears that RedZee.com (link left out on purpose) is using a slew of bad tactics to attempt to gain popularity in the search space. I haven't personally seen referrals from them, yet, but some others have and base...
Xan has a great post on how to build your own search engine. It's not nearly as difficult as it sounds and she notes (as Matt Cutts did in his interview by Aaron) that it will quickly make you an on-pag...
