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Danny Sullivan

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Would Someone Please Explain To News Corp How Google Works?

Dave, enjoying the discussion. Google News doesn't compete with the WSJ to me. That's because the WSJ has a selection of stories for a particular a

Would Someone Please Explain To News Corp How Google Works?

David, we could survive without Google, Techmeme and aggregators in general, if we had to. Google is our largest referring source, which is similar to

Would Someone Please Explain To News Corp How Google Works?

Kevin, News Corp actually has skilled search marketers throughout their organization. It's the high level execs who don't seem to know the nitty gritt

The Myth Of Great Search Engine Results

Thanks, everyone, for all the comments. Some responses. Andrew, yep, those are three common words. But search engines have long used proximity as a

The Myth Of Great Search Engine Results

Matt, that's it exactly. The first page of results ARE fairly good, as I noted. It's the second page that's largely a mess. I've bolded now that I'm t

Thoughts On Web Developers, SEO & Reputation Problems

Joe, I don't mean to be dismissive of web developers at all, and my apologies to you or anyone who is taking this post that way. I totally agree. T

Yahoo Search No Longer Uses Meta Keywords Tag

Yahoo said they simply do not use the tag. They didn't specify ranking versus indexing, I think because the "we don't use it" was pretty clear -- they

Reviewing Some Bad Google Search Results With Sergey Brin

Dunno, searched for "john wayne airport car rental," and I don't see many trusted brands in there. The description for one of the gives me a quote in

Despite Assurances, Google Places Pages Now Showing In Search Results

Yes, I know the arguments that Google makes for showing partially indexed or "link only" URLs. They're good ones. And yet, they still don't respect a

Google News Labels Some Sources As “Blogs”

Ron, it's rare to find a newspaper that fact checks. Trust me, i know. I've been quoted in hundreds of articles -- few papers ever, ever call to fact

Elephants In The Link Building Living Room

I can hear my news editor Barry Schwartz crying right now. You want curated content? Search Engine Land gives it to you each day. It's called Dear Fox News: SEO Is Not Search Engine Scamming (Unless You’re Scamming Yourself)

I wanted to add that Ben Cook ("skitzzo") has been pretty upset (it seems) that this is somehow an "outing" article on Fox News and paid links. It's n

Dear Fox News: SEO Is Not Search Engine Scamming (Unless You’re Scamming Yourself)

Arthur, this isn't a "reporting" article on Fox's tactics. It's dissecting their bad reporting on SEO. And yes, I said for the most part, it's tiresom

Revisionist History: Bartz Claims Yahoo Was Never A Search Engine

ChiefAlchemist, for Yahoo to "do search" meant they were indeed a search company -- and not just one in 1998 but right now in 2009. There are only

Revisionist History: Bartz Claims Yahoo Was Never A Search Engine

Andrew, for some reason I remember it being like 1/3 primary and 2/3 on the backup. Or the opposite! Or not at all! It was long ago, and I'm not sure

The Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal, In Simple Terms

Dammit! Well, there's stil John.

Google Loses “Backwards Compatibility” On Paid Link Blocking & PageRank Sculpting

Donna, I didn't see your post or hear about it. It's kind of crazy with the show -- when I wrote this, I hadn't even gotten through 200 pieces of emai

Twitter’s Biz Stone: Thoughts On Repositioning Twitter, Search Ads, The Twitter Ecosystem & More

Louis, I spoke with Biz last Thursday, I think a day before your post had come out. That's the reason I didn't get more into depth about the search pr

What?! A Search-Hostile Site That Still Ranks Well

Love it! You saved me from having to do my own dissection, Stephan -- not that I would have gotten around to it. I should say that I was totally jo

Forbes.com CEO Spanfeller Attacks Google, Stumbles Into His Own Cesspool

Andreas, I agree, brand owners do have some serious concerns. But this article was purposely written in a sarcastic tone because the CEO of Forbes.com

Big Upset: Live Search & Ask.com Win Kentucky Derby Search

Fair enough, Google does get two crawled results that mention the winner in their titles. But the results from 2005 and 2008 aren't exactly poster chi

Google Giving Away 250,000 Google Profile Business Cards

Well, I take that back. I used a different account, and the link no longer works. I suspect all the cards have gone, but we'll check.

Google Giving Away 250,000 Google Profile Business Cards

I've checked, and the link above still works for me when I'm logged in. As it's only offered for those in the US, it might not be working if your acco

How To Overhype Your Search Engine

Marie-Claire, I cover search. Period. That includes search marketing, but it is by no means just search marketing that defines my work. So I guess I d

URL Shorteners: Which Shortening Service Should You Use?

@guykawasaki I might look at Adjix in the future. Had a few other people suggest further shorteners to consider. But there are so many! That's why I f

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