Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Yes... it is that time of week blog fans... Ruby Tuesday. Here is some speak of the past week:
Jeeves gets fired
A west coast search engine service has launched Ask.com (once AskJeeves). Why did they give the merry ol' butler a boot? CEO Jim Lanzone replied, "Jeeves was associated with being for novices or being for questions, not as being a world class robust search engine which is what we've become." The new site's 'ace in the hole' is software that conducts expert rank searches (we better do some early spring cleaning around here then). Ask.com hopes to get the jump on Yahoo! and MSN by incorporating different dimensions into their search engine.
Tips on site architecture
While the creme de la creme of the SEO world is having a circus around Piccadilly (I love my puns), the rest of us must push on with our daily routines. Vanessa Fox posted yesterday on some successful tips for site architecture. The post is informative (stocked with a lot of links) and is watered down so even those that are not so tech savvy (ahemm..) can understand.
Diggers vs. SEOers
This week spawned much a-bloggin between those who pledge allegiance to dig and those of us who conduct SEO under the corona of a 'white hat.' The argument (or lack there of) started a long time ago but old scars were re-torn last week. To gain insight into the all of the hubbub check out Danny Sullivan's most excellent blog, Diggers Can't Handle The Truth (About SEO).
Google's Death Star defenses cut by Wall Street's rebel camp
The Wall Street Journal reported that Brandon Drury and Luke Sample (now you understand the Star Wars reference) who were accused of promoting film piracy in a suit brought by major film studios had received significant support from Google between 2003 and 2005. Google has been tailing me, so I had to go all the way to China's Xinhua online for this story. Apparently, big boy Google cried of their ignorance last Friday and stated that they will better inform their ad sales reps to better 'sniff' out these pirates- arrgh!
Video killed the textual star
About.com has recently added 500 videos into its cannon. Sparked by the sagacious comments offered by contentmuse on his blog, the site decided that video on the web is the next big thing. In an article on Adotas.com , CEO Scott Meyer relates that the site is "extending our model." The site hopes to supplement textual information with video installments offering how-to insight and other informational opportunities for users.
Jeeves gets fired
A west coast search engine service has launched Ask.com (once AskJeeves). Why did they give the merry ol' butler a boot? CEO Jim Lanzone replied, "Jeeves was associated with being for novices or being for questions, not as being a world class robust search engine which is what we've become." The new site's 'ace in the hole' is software that conducts expert rank searches (we better do some early spring cleaning around here then). Ask.com hopes to get the jump on Yahoo! and MSN by incorporating different dimensions into their search engine.
Tips on site architecture
While the creme de la creme of the SEO world is having a circus around Piccadilly (I love my puns), the rest of us must push on with our daily routines. Vanessa Fox posted yesterday on some successful tips for site architecture. The post is informative (stocked with a lot of links) and is watered down so even those that are not so tech savvy (ahemm..) can understand.
Diggers vs. SEOers
This week spawned much a-bloggin between those who pledge allegiance to dig and those of us who conduct SEO under the corona of a 'white hat.' The argument (or lack there of) started a long time ago but old scars were re-torn last week. To gain insight into the all of the hubbub check out Danny Sullivan's most excellent blog, Diggers Can't Handle The Truth (About SEO).
Google's Death Star defenses cut by Wall Street's rebel camp
The Wall Street Journal reported that Brandon Drury and Luke Sample (now you understand the Star Wars reference) who were accused of promoting film piracy in a suit brought by major film studios had received significant support from Google between 2003 and 2005. Google has been tailing me, so I had to go all the way to China's Xinhua online for this story. Apparently, big boy Google cried of their ignorance last Friday and stated that they will better inform their ad sales reps to better 'sniff' out these pirates- arrgh!
Video killed the textual star
About.com has recently added 500 videos into its cannon. Sparked by the sagacious comments offered by contentmuse on his blog, the site decided that video on the web is the next big thing. In an article on Adotas.com , CEO Scott Meyer relates that the site is "extending our model." The site hopes to supplement textual information with video installments offering how-to insight and other informational opportunities for users.
