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Unsure how the current financial crisis will affect the search engine marketing industry, especially PPC and banner advertising? Andrew Goodman offers sober(ing) analysis and "a few wild guesses". Marvelous insight from the guy who wrote the book on read more »
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Enquiro's Gord Hotchkiss argues that Google's search market share is likely not to go down due to:

1. The fact that its (at the time) superior ranking algorithm was introduced just as an "explosion" of web pages became available to feed its inde read more »
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Rob Snell recounts his recent experience testifying before the US House of Representatives' Committee on Small Business re search marketing. The article may be a bit heavy on the travelogue, but it gives the reader a good sense of the organizational read more »
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After you read this, you should start understanding that people's explanation for their behavior, including, of course, the search result they've clicked on, is largely an after-the-fact rationalization of a subconscious process.

(On a related n read more »
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An important precedent in pushing back against the FBI's "national security letters" (a/k/a, "Just divulge any private user information we ask for, and keep your trap shut about it"). But Danny: Why talk about Wired's "nice write-up" if you're not g read more »
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I hadn't heard of SE RedZee, but their new results page really caught my eye: A semicircle made of thumbnails of the results pages that the user whirls through.

Article author Needleman dismisses the interface as cute, and there are certainly is read more »
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A couple of days ago I noticed that Google's homepage had a small StumbleUpon logo and link at the top. (I have the StumbleUpon Firefox toolbar installed, but not set to display.) I posted about it at Webmaster World, and now other people are appear read more »
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Really nice comparison of Yahoo! Search Assist vs. Google Suggest (i.e., search tools that use dropdown menus which display in real-time possible keywords that the tool thinks you may be intending to type as soon as you start typing). Cheers also fo read more »
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Here's a fond farewell to the days when we thought we could count on Site Explorer to give us accurate inbound link data. Sigh. read more »
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