Late last week, Danny Sullivan launched Sphinn, the search engine industry's own social news & networking site, with remarkably little fanfare. However, despite the relatively covert launch, the site itself has some fairly exceptional functionality and a very fast learning curve. And, if that wasn't enough, one of the top stories right now is on the lazin...
As a writer/editor for Drivl, I do a lot of image searches in order to add relevant, amusing pictures to supplement stories that either I've written or that one of our users has submitted. At first, I would default to Google for all of my image searching needs, but the relevance is often low (and sometimes porn-tastic). Yahoo! Images is sometimes better, sometim...
This is a short entry because it's very late, I'm very tired, and I still have tons of unread email... In thinking about Google's future competitively and how they might eventually fall by the wayside, I always bring up the single example of a site I consistently use to find better content than what's available through Google's SERPs. Granted, this engine doesn't operate perfectly for e...
Last week, Rand discovered that an article we'd written quite some time ago had never been launched. "How to Leverage Web 2.0 & Social Media Sites to Market Your Brand & Control Your Message" covers thirty sites that you can use for marketing.
I ran into a kindred spirit at the SES conference in San Jose this summer - John Anderson. Smart, incredibly likable, motivated, and passionate about making the web a better place, I felt like I had known John for years after spending 10 minutes with him outside a session (this is one of my favorite parts of going to conferences). Over the past few months, John and a talented team of friends ha...
First, for those who may not be familiar with Apostolos Gerasoulis and the Teoma search technology, ExpertRank (which now powers Ask.com), here's a brief synopsis: The web is made up of communities of experts on given topics (science, math, lite...
Who do you think has the best shot at taking market share of searches from Google? It's an uphill battle, but I don't think anyone would give Google's hegemony on the market more than a decade (even half that long might be generous). We'll have to refer back to this in 2017 and ...
I got a good chuckle out of G-Man's Low on Cash? Start a Forum! post.Following on the same theme I've seen a ton of blogspot sites tearing up some of the money SERPs at MSN this week. They have clogged up a couple of my favorite niches and are currently dominating the ...
During our recent trip to San Jose, I was lucky enough to be the receipient of a dinner with the folks from Ask.com, including Gary Price, Robyn DeuPree, Paul Vallez, Erik Collier and two very nice gentlemen from the Ask public relations team. From the search industry side, I was accompanied by Jennifer La...
I thought it would be worth a shot to create a quick search industry tool with Yahoo!'s new site builder. I'd love your feedback on the results (as I'm sure Yahoo! would, too). ...
Ask.com, the only other search engine besides Google to record an increase in market share over the last 6 months has rolled out a new feature in their SERPs. Try a search for SEOmoz or Rand Fishkin and note listings from the blog: ...
I'm writing this entry in the hopes that the good people at Ask.com will continue to provide the service at xml.teoma.com without interruption. I have my fears that simply by talking about it, I risk destroying its value, but after a careful review, I believe it's worth the risk to share something of great value and interest to the SEM community as a whole....
I know there's some friendly folks over in Redmond who like to read SEOmoz, so I'll make this as short and painless as possible. The MSN search engine currently uses link neighborhoods to judge if a .com site is targeted internationally (like, say - to Canada). So, if lots of links point at your .com site from .ca domains hosted in Ottawa, even if you want to be targeting the ...
This is my first blog written from the road on my handy new Moto "Q" - a very sleek little gadget. I actually got the suggestion to pick it up from friend and fellow SEO Jonathan Mendez. Using sites from a mobile device has given me one more big reason to love CSS. Viewing table-based sites on this device is not a good experience. I'm ...