I have some incredibly sad news to pass along, that of the death of Jerry Bussewitz, husband of Anne Kennedy. Anne from Beyond Ink is a regular speaker at many search conferences, and she was often accompanied by Jerry to them. He was an incredibly kind and friendly man that many at conferences also got […]
Cleaning out my email, I came across a reminder from the BBC World Service (my alma mater for six months; I was a typist, not a journalist) about a special report they did on Google. I was interviewed as part of it, as were many others. It came out in August, so some of it […]
Next month, PBS’s Frontline will have a special on the current state of news reporting. Both Google and Yahoo will be taking part in the extensive series. From the show description: FRONTLINE interviews TV executives from ABC to The Daily Show, current and former TV anchors — including Charles Gibson, Dan Rather, Connie Chung and […]
If the search engine optimization world has a rock star, ironically the king isn’t an actual SEO but rather mild mannered Matt Cutts of Google. His title of software engineer belies his role as spam czar from Google. If Google’s web search results are a castle constantly under siege, Matt Cutts is the one high on the walls, […]
The formal launch of Search Engine Land remains December 11. However, Barry and I have decided to kickstart the daily SearchCap newsletter this Friday. You can now also signup for our monthly newsletter, which will now be called Search Month. More on this, plus information on the three different feeds we offer, in the post […]
I said earlier that I, Chris Sherman and Barry Schwartz would be writing here on Search Engine Land when it formally launches on December 11. I’m happy to now add that we’ll be working with correspondents: Phil Bradley, Bill Slawski, Jennifer Slegg, Brian Smith, and Greg Sterling. We’re glad to have them aboard! They’ll be […]
Search Engine Land is a new search news blog launching December 11, 2006. Danny Sullivan, along with Chris Sherman and Barry Schwartz, will be providing information about search engine marketing and how search engines work in general, from a searcher’s perspective. At launch, the site will provide:
It’s not a story — just something here temporarily to help us as we finish building some category pages!