The nominations are in, and now it’s time for search marketers to vote on which two people should represent SEMs against the major search engines in the SMX Search Bowl search trivia contest, which happens at our SMX West three-day search conference next month in California.

The nomination round happened last week, and now SEOmoz has a voting form up. Cast your vote! Below, more about the contest and the finalists.

SMX Search Bowl will have teams from Ask, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo competing against each other and a search marketer team to test their knowledge of search and search marketing. Each team will have two people. The teams so far:

• Ask.com: TBA
• Google: Matt Cutts & Paul Haahr
• Microsoft: TBA
• Yahoo: Tim Mayer & TBA

I have no idea if the teams will have their own team names separate from their company names. I’ll probably encourage them to do so! Meanwhile, finalists to play on behalf of search marketers:

• Loren Baker
• Hamlet Batista
• Andy Beal
• Greg Boser
• Todd Friesen
• Andrew Goodman
• Michael Gray
• Heather Lloyd Martin
• Ian Lurie
• Matt McGee
• Jill Whalen

Go vote! And for more about SMX West, check out some of the past posts and information below:

• SMX West 2008 Agenda Up: 3 Days, More Than 50 Sessions!
• Search 3.0: The Blended & Vertical Search Revolution
• First Networking/Extracurricular Activities Announced For SMX West
• SMX West Keynotes Focus On "Future of Search"
• SMX West: Preview Our Upcoming Conference In Sight & Sound
• Complete Conference Agenda
• Conference Pass Types (Expo, Networking, Full Access)
• Conference Guarantee
• Bonus Offers
• The SMX Difference / What To Expect
• Registration Info

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