Topic: Jason Calacanis

Netscape “Classic” To Return As Default View

Netscape has announced that the social news site it transformed into just over a year ago will be dropped from the Netscape home page in favor of the more traditional news portal site it released last month. Netscape made it clear that the social news site will continue, though the new future location hasn’t been […]

SEO

Mahalo Greenhouse: Get Paid For Writing Search Results

Jason Calacanis has announced Mahalo Greenhouse, a way for users to get paid for writing their own search results for the Mahalo people-powered search engine. The Greenhouse FAQ gives more details on the program, where if accepted, you can earn $10 to $15 per submission.

Mahalo Launches With Human-Crafted Search Results

Mahalo, the expected people-powered search engine backed by Jason Calacanis, has now gone live in an early "Alpha" test release. In Mahalo, human editors have crafted the top search results for popular queries. For example, search for [paris hotels], and human editors at Mahalo have assembled a page that lists actual hotels in Paris rather […]

SEO

Searcharazzi: Calacanis & The Case Of The Mystery Search Project

Sherlock, get out your magnifying glass. Clues have been scattered everywhere and there is a mystery to be solved. This is no Whodunnit; Jason Calacanis, founder of Weblogs, Inc., is clearly the mastermind. While there are no bodies on the ground yet, Calacanis has marked July 14, 2007 as the day that SEOs will supposedly […]

PPC

From My Inbox: More Defense Of SEO

I spent about a half-hour today defending SEO privately in an email to someone questioning it. Upon reflection, I thought those responses should go into a public post. After all, the discussion involved Stephen Colbert, the great Jason Calacanis mystery project that will kill SEO as well as those scumbag SEOs themselves. So I’ll end […]

Ranking The SEO Ranking Factors

Back in 2005, SEOmoz tried to assemble a list of all the possible search engine ranking factors out there and get various experts to rate them. I say tried to because while they had a list, and ratings, no one knows all the factors or exactly how each individual search engine chooses to use them. […]

PPC

No SEO Bull: Calacanis Challenge Sees Traffic Rise 21%

Neil Patel challenged Jason Calacanis, who said last month that SEO is bull, that SEO can improve traffic to his site. Jason accepted the challenge and the early results have now been posted. Neil shows that by making “white hat” recommendation, he has increased Jason’s search traffic by 21 percent. Note that Neil also said […]

SEO

22 Links To Coverage About The SEO Is Bull Debate

Over the past two days, there has been a ton of debate over Jason Calacanis’s post calling SEO "bull." Since then, Danny’s done a long response, Jason’s been challenged (and accepted) to have his site SEOed and much more. Here’s a rundown and a rough timeline of developments:

Why The SEO Folks Were Mad At You, Jason

Jason Calacanis is riled up about SEO today, telling the world that "90% of the SEO market is made up of snake oil salesman" and still confused over why the "SEO folks" were mad at him when he said "SEO is bull" during our keynote conversation at SES Chicago last December. I love Jason. I […]

LinkedIn Answers Launched

Now joining the questions answering game is LinkedIn, with its new LinkedIn Answers service, just two days old. Jason Calacanis pinged me about it just via instant message, saying he loves it. Sequoia Capital is an investor in LinkedIn — and Jason now works for Sequoia — so you can easily assume some interest in […]