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Nine Ways the Internet Could Change that Would Make Search as We Know it Obsolete

We, as a species, kinda stumbled into this Internet thing. It’s all an inconceivably vast, unregulated, unhindered, unorganized cornucopia of digitized crap, and in order to deal with the fact that humans defecate in digital, we’ve had to invent stuff like Google to help us sift through all the … you get the point.

The way [...]

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Bad Decision, Engine: The Problems with Marketing Search (and why Bing needs the tech vote to survive)

There was a time when I was a Linux fanboy – dual booting with LILO to a plethora of software options in Windowz, and a plethora of … ummm, different ways to maintain my computer, in Linux. By virtue of my attempts (failed later in life, thankfully) to become a pure geek, I acquired the [...]

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A Conversation with a Non-Search-Marketer

In researching (ha, if you can call it that, and I juuuuust did) my latest post, The Problems with Marketing Search, I had a conversation with an old friend of mine who happens to match up pretty well with the profile I consider important to Microsoft right now.
The Bing initiative needs the younger, tech-savvy crowd [...]

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Nothing Personal: Why Personalized Search Never Really Arrived (and maybe shouldn’t)

With Google’s personalized search feature bringing a lawsuit to the ‘Plex earlier this month, it begs the question, ummm what Google personalized search? It’s like the old ABC commercials, I can’t see the difference…
Back in early 2007 there were so many boatloads full of buzz about Google integrating more ‘personalized’ results into the index, switching [...]

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The Not So Great Search Engine Market Reach Survey

UPDATE – When I woke up this morning, after having published this post … ummm, really early this morning, Webmasterworld had to say this, quoting somebody else:
Yahoo! and Microsoft announced an agreement that will improve the Web search experience for users and advertisers, and deliver sustained innovation to the industry. In simple terms, Microsoft will [...]

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