Search engine rankings were quite the rage some 10 odd years ago but SEO matured as a profession, as did the learnings and the KPIs (not to mention search engine technology). I have seen countless #1 rankings for highly competitive search spaces that didn’t make any money. I’ve also seen[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Google’
April 8th, 2010 - 9:47 pm § in SEO & marketing
Rankings are not (that) important
Tags: Google, Google search, Henry Ford, Internet, Internet marketing, Internet search engines, marketing, Nick Wilsdon, personalised search engine results, Pete Young, products/services, Recommendation systems, search engine optimization;, search engine rankings;, search engine technology, search spaces, search terms;, Twitter Inc, Web search engine, World Wide Web 9 Comments
April 6th, 2010 - 11:20 pm § in Social networks
Foursquare: almost there!
I’ve used Foursquare several times a day for over 2 months now. Social networks and other types of community have come and gone so often that when something new comes along, we can all be forgiven for being tired of it before even trying it. It would however be unforgivable for anyone working [...]
Tags: Bing, Crunked, Dennis Crowley, Dodgeball, Foursquare, Google, Google Inc., insurance, insurance premiums, iphone, Legal & General, Legal and General Group PLC, location-based social networking website, mayor, mobile devices, Naveen Selvadurai, online behaviour, online marketing, Online social networking, social media marketing, social media marketing works, social media;, Social networks, Starbucks Corporation, Starbucks;, Sydney;, twitter, World Wide Web 1 Comment
March 29th, 2010 - 8:38 pm § in SEO & marketing
Agile Marketing: embrace chaos
Agile marketing is a methodology that allows for exceptional results in a chaotic environment. Not all marketing teams work in a rapidly changing and chaotic environment and for them, the waterfall model is perfectly fine. I suspect however that most digital marketing teams will be working in a [...]
March 24th, 2010 - 6:32 am § in SEO & marketing
The new SEO: Visibility strategist
SEO has moved on in the last 5 years (considerably some might say) yet I still see the same skill requirements and the somewhat vague job descriptions in job listings. It isn’t easy to hire for the role of SEO if you’re not an expert in it, so word of mouth does go a long [...][...]
Tags: Business, Google, Google Inc., information management, Internet, Internet marketing, marketing, search engine, search engine optimization;, Search engines, search space, Semantic web, SEO analyst, social media;, Social networks, strategist, Technology_Internet, Visibility strategist, Web development, World Wide Web 5 Comments
September 13th, 2009 - 9:46 pm § in Guest posts
Unbiased comparison of HTC Hero and Apple iPhone 3GS
The phone or rather the mobile device as a whole is the future of the web in many ways. It’s important for us to be able to access all of our information more than ever. Why? Because we’ve linked it all together and put a lot of our eggs on the web. I still keep [...][...]
Tags: 3G, Android, Apple Inc., ATM, computer programmer and I.T. manager, GBP;, Google, Google Inc., iphone, IPhone OS, ITunes, Jamie Vinall, Java;, Linksys iPhone, Mac OS, manager for a small engineering company, Multi-touch, online stuff, online tutorial, phone syndrome, Portable media players, Smartphones, Technology_Internet, web browsing;, web-programming, Wi-Fi No Comments
September 7th, 2009 - 9:35 pm § in Information retrieval
Evaluating search engines
Today we have quite a wide choice of information retrieval systems ranging from Google, Bing, Kosmix, Duck Duck Go, Cognition and so many more. We all have the engine we use 90% of the time I’d estimate, but is it really the best engine? It might be the best for us personally or for a [...][...]
Tags: Google, Google Inc., Google search, Human Computer Information Retrieval, Information retrieval, information retrieval systems;, online framework, Precision, Recall, Relevance, search intention, search interface, search space, search systems, Technology_Internet, Text Retrieval Conference 1 Comment
September 4th, 2009 - 8:45 am § in SEO & marketing
The end of SEO: an interview
Fran Molloy of the Nett# magazine interviewed both myself, Kate Gamble and Glenn Murray a little while ago. The interview has been published and is available for you to read now. It’s called “The end of search engine optimisation”, I hope you find it interesting. Do you think t[...]
Tags: a sociologist, Aaron Bradley, Angie Haggstrom, David Harry;, Fran Molloy, Glenn Murray, Google, Google Inc., Internet marketing, Justin Parks, learning algorithm, machine learning;, marketing, Mel Nelson, online marketing, Python, RDF;, Scientist, search engine, search engine optimisation;, search engine optimization;, search engineers, Search engines, search engines ones, Semantic web, SEOs, Suh, Technology_Internet, Terry Van Horne, web pros, Website promotion, World Wide Web 1 Comment
August 20th, 2009 - 1:09 am § in Information retrieval
Something worth seeing 8)
Related Posts:This week in geekdom – thEsi§Evaluating search enginesFrowning at GoogleThe new SEO: Visibility strategistThe end of SEO: an interview[...]
Tags: API;, Computational science, Computer graphics, Dania Bilal, David Thompson, Google, Google Inc., Google search, IBM;, image search, Infographics, Information retrieval, Information visualization, International Business Machines Corporation, Jesse Thomas, Joe Lamantia, Marc Sebrechts, Nicholas Belkin;, Scientific modeling, search engine, search engine data visualisation, search engine results;, Shu-Shing Lee, Technology_Internet, Visualization, Yahoo, Yahoo! Inc. 2 Comments
August 14th, 2009 - 8:25 am § in TWIG
This week in Geekdom – R05$
Greetings, welcome to another edition of TWIG. I do hope that you have had an excellent week and that you have been able to play with some fun new gadgets. I’ve been eyeing up some Android phones and playing with all the different opportunities they present. I wish they came prettier, like the[...]
July 31st, 2009 - 6:41 pm § in TWIG
This week in geekdom – thEsi§
Greetings, I hope that the week has treated you well and that you have achieved all manner of wonderful things. There has been a lot going on with the SIGIR conference low-down, the Google-Yahoo deal (it would be funny, no?), and all of the craziness surrounding cognition, nanotechnology and robotic[...]
Tags: ado;, America;, bathtub/shower Aerogrow garden, DoS, Google, Google Inc., Helen Keller, high tech, IBM;, International Business Machines Corporation, Interrupt, Mercedes 300SL, Ron Arad, screen saver, software system, Technology_Internet, Teuco bathroom installation, Yahoo, Yahoo! Inc. No Comments
