From the monthly archives:

February 2006

Media Press Release Threatens to Sue

by Greg February 28, 2006 Search

Awhile back, I posted about a press release company that posted what looked like a fake trackback to my site.
Apparently, they’re not happy about that post.

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SES New York

by Greg February 24, 2006 Search

I’m taking off tomorrow for Search Engine Strategies in New York. For those of you who will be attending, here is a quick rundown of the panels I’ll be speaking on:
Session: Auditing Paid Listings & Click Fraud Issues Day: Tuesday, February 28 Time: 11:15 am
Session: Linking Strategies Day: Wednesday, March 1 [...]

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Brand Building and Technical Ineptness

by Greg February 24, 2006 Search

According to Nielsen//NetRatings, Google handled close to 2.5 billion search queries in December of 2005. When it comes to search infrastructure and scalability, they rewrote the book.
So how is it that a company with such technical prowess could launch yet another service that crashed and burned do to "extremely high demand?" Is it really possible [...]

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msn-ff.jpg

by Greg February 17, 2006 Search

On Wednesday, Brady Forrest announced that MSN had launched a new UI for MSN search.
He also mentioned that they’ve made a lot of improvements to their algorithm lately.
I’m not going to spend any time talking about the algo comments because there are already plenty of people handling that.
Instead, I thought I’d restrict my comments to [...]

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Push Button Marketing 101

by Greg February 10, 2006 Search

Comment spam isn’t something I get extremely worked up about. I just look at it as a by-product of the environment we exist in. Until search engines can get past "the person with the most links wins" comment spam will be around.
That said, I fully understand that my point of view is probably part of [...]

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