Google Foresaw Mousavi’s Win
See here for details: #Iran Election: “Mousavi likely winner” - Google Trends.
How To Rank Despite The Splash Page: The Double Homepage Technique
Does the legal team or your boss absolutely insist on having a splash page? Here’s a tip to rank the homepage in the search engines despite the splash. It’s untested as of yet, but I feel it’s good enough to be worth a try.
Are you ready?
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Inverse Document Frequency In Plain English - Dr E. Garcia
I recently had the opportunity to discuss some information retrieval theory with Dr Edel Garcia, who is a researcher and professor in the field, as well as a longtime SEW Forum moderator (aka Orion). He helped me understand what Inverse Document Frequency (IDF) is, and what it has been used for in the information retrieval field. Dr. Garcia generously agreed to let me publish our conversations on this blog.
(Update: Apparently Dr. Garcia is no longer active at SEW as a moderator.) (more…)
Froogle 2.0: Google Declares War On Amazon
by One Good Bumblebee
From the Seattle Times today (read in print version) comes a story headlined: “Google Says It Will Challenge Amazon On Electronic Books.” Loyal readers of mine would have known this was coming 7 months ago. Here are a few choice excerpts from my old post: (more…)
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5 Great Reasons To Attend SMX Advanced
You NEED to attend SMX Advanced. It's that simple. The single best investment you can make in your search education and professional life this year will be happening in Seattle, June 2-3, 2009. Here are 5 sweet reasons to attend. 1) Marty Weintraub of Aimclear search marketing is on at least 2 panels. At SMX West, he schooled myself and the rest of the audience with such creative techniques that I couldn't ...
For school, work and taxes. Therefore, posting will be light or nonexistent for the next two weeks. When I return, I've got some massively juicy content for you, including interviews I did at SMX West with Bruce Clay of Bruce Clay Internet Marketing and Gillian Fishkin of SEOmoz. Those are two of the top shops in the game today, by brand awareness and client base, and our interviews focused on the business ...
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