Posts Tagged ‘yahoo’

A Time and Season for Search: How Data Mining Can Influence Search Advertising

{ Posted on Mar 10 2010 by admin }
With more than 3 billion search queries a month, a search engine like Yahoo might be tempted to take a close look at, and analyze the data it receives in its search logs. That data might tell it what ...Read More »

3 Takeaways from SMX West 2010

{ Posted on Mar 08 2010 by admin }
SMX West was a rollercoaster of highs, lows, twists and turns. The highs of adrenaline-fueled excitement, the lows of getting the lowdown from the search reps, and the twists and turns of going with the flow during such an activity-filled ...Read More »

Why a Search Engine Might Choose Something Other Than Meta Descriptions for Page Summaries in Search Results

{ Posted on Mar 05 2010 by admin }
A misconception about web pages that lingered for a long time on the Web was that most people who visit your web site will enter your site on your home page. Another one is that the meta description you ...Read More »

SMX West 2010 Liveblog Coverage

{ Posted on Mar 04 2010 by admin }
The conference is over but the knowledge lives on.  Read all of Bruce Clay’s Liveblogging Coverage of SMX West 2010 here. Session names will take you to the coverage. Session descriptions link you to the SMX conference site. Thanks to all ...Read More »

How a Search Engine Might Choose Text for Quicklinks or Site links

{ Posted on Feb 28 2010 by admin }
Sometimes when you search at one of the major search engines, you’ll see an extra set of links showing up under one of the listings in those search results. Referred to as either quicklinks or site links, most often those ...Read More »

Apple Streaming Media Patent Filing Hints at New Approach for iTunes Store

{ Posted on Feb 25 2010 by admin }
A new patent filing from Apple may be a sign of changes to the way Apple presents music recommendations at the iTunes store. That change was hinted at last December when Apple acquired the streaming music site, Lala. The patent ...Read More »

Xerox Brings Patent Infringement Suit Against Google, Yahoo, and YouTube

{ Posted on Feb 22 2010 by admin }
Charles Knight, who is now the Search Editor at Nextweb pointed me to a Bloomberg report at BusinessWeek, Google, Yahoo Sued by Xerox Over Search Query Patents. The patent infringement complaint (PDF – 308k) contains claims that specifically name ...Read More »

SEO for Government: Trying to Find My Town on the Web

{ Posted on Feb 19 2010 by admin }
It may be possible that governmental web sites are at least as important, and in some cases more important that most of the other web sites online. They can provide information on when and where to vote, when and ...Read More »

UK2.Net Web Hosting Fail

{ Posted on Feb 11 2010 by admin }
As a part time job I do car valeting (Car Valeting Pro) on evenings and weekends. Since its winter I don’t get many enquires so I tend to only check my website monthly, whilst still checking my emails daily. Yesterday I ...Read More »

SMX West 2010 Liveblogging Schedule

{ Posted on Feb 10 2010 by admin }
The first big search conference of the new year, Search Marketing Expo West, is just around the bend. SMX West takes place March 2-5 in Santa Clara, California. Bruce Clay, Inc. will be there, with a team in the booth, ...Read More »