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Land features interviews with search industry
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Oct. 18, 2007 at 6:20am by Danny Sullivan
Karen Wickre: Mother Of The Google Blog On Google's Official Blogging
When Google launched the Official Google Blog back in 2004, it started as sort of a ho-hum event. There wasn't anything particularly gripping, and some wondered if the company should be more edgy with its posts. Since then, Google has launched more than 70 additional official blogs over the...
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May. 23, 2007 at 9:34am by Chris Sherman
Q&A With Seth Godin, Founder & CEO Of Social Search Service Squidoo
Seth Godin is widely known as one of the foremost advocates of "permission marketing," promotional campaigns that don't rely on interrupting the attention of your customers, but rather engage them and even turn them into enthusiastic advocates that volunteer time and effort to help you promote your products or...
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Apr. 4, 2007 at 12:34pm by Chris Sherman
Q&A With Garrett Camp, Founder & Chief Architect, StumbleUpon
Search engines are great tools to help you find things you suspect exist on the web, but they leave a lot to be desired when it comes to discovering the unexpected or unknown. Sure, you may find something really cool after doing the result-page/back-button tango for a while, but...
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Mar. 21, 2007 at 12:58am by Chris Sherman
Q&A With François Bourdoncle, CEO Of Exalead
Exalead is one of those great search engines that most people haven't heard of. And that's a shame, because it offers some really powerful and unique features that most information professionals love. Exalead is also the name of an enterprise search company, co-founded by today's Q&A participant, François Bourdoncle....
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Jan. 31, 2007 at 6:00pm by Chris Sherman
Q&A With Stephen Baker, CEO Of Reed Business Search
Reed Elsevier is one of the largest, most influential publishers in the world, a powerhouse in the science and medical, legal, education and business markets. But the company also has a major online presence, with more than 1,000 web sites in just its business group. Last year, Reed Business...
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Jan. 17, 2007 at 8:32am by Danny Sullivan
Q&A With Gabe Rivera, Creator Of Techmeme
Over the past decade, I've seen a lot of search tools that were supposed to transform my life. Few of them have. But Techmeme was one of those. When it kicked off back in September 2005, I wrote a review, gave it a preliminary thumbs-up and soon found myself...
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Jan. 17, 2007 at 8:00am by Danny Sullivan
Q&A Land: New Column From Search Engine Land
One of my resolutions in starting Search Engine Land was to spend more time doing Q&As with people. There's no better way to ensure I do that than to start a column. So I'm happy to announce that Q&A Land becomes the second column offered by Search Engine Land....
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Dec. 29, 2006 at 7:37pm by Danny Sullivan
Q&A With Jimmy Wales On Search Wikia
News came out earlier this week that Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales had a new project in mind, to build a community-driven "Google-killer" search engine. I've just finished talking with Jimmy about his plans. Here's a rundown on his vision and what may come as his Search Wikia project grows...
