Sigh. Reading Stephen Ballmer’s latest "rally the troops" memo over
yet another
Microsoft
reorganization, I just want to scream at the man and the company in
general that they’ll never win at search if they don’t get it through their
[…]

Video is becoming an important part of local search marketing campaigns, and this week’s SMX Local Mobile conference features speaking talking about how small and medium businesses can use video to be more effective with their online marketing. Video solutions providers to these panels are Jared Simon, VP of Business Development of TurnHere, and Anupam […]

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:

Video As A
Search Marketing Tool For SMBs
Video is becoming an important part of local search […]

by Ross Dunn
At Yahoo Anecdotal today Yahoo announced
that they had recently opened the Yahoo Accessibility Lab; a place
where only Yahoo employees (for now) can experience the world of
the Internet as a disabled web surfer would.
The blog posting also states:
“In addition to simulating the disabled experience, the Accessibility
Lab also provides a growing collection of […]

The Live QnA blog announced that the Live QnA question and answer site has been updated with several feature and design releases. Here is a brief overview of those changes:
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I feel bad for always seeming to pick on Google about showing inappropriate images in normal web search. But it’s happened again. This morning at the Search Engine Roundtable, I explained that a search for [educating] returns a “teacher standing over a student holding a small rod, with the student’s pants down leaning over a […]

After six months
of testing, Google has formally rolled out
Knol, a service designed to let
people create pages of knowledge on any topic they choose. While Google says
Knol is not designed to compete with Wikipedia — and there are good
[…]

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:

Google’s Knol Launches: Like Wikipedia, With Moderation After six months of testing, Google has formally rolled out Knol, a service designed to let people create pages of […]

I’m in the process of finalizing the agenda for our SMX London conference, which will be posted in early August. If you’ve got a unique, compelling idea for a session you think we should consider for the conference, I’d like to hear about it. And don’t delay—tomorrow is the last day we’ll be accepting session […]

One of the most popular vertical search features on the web is image search index. What’s really remarkable, however, is how little has changed in the core technology approach to the indexing of multimedia over the last decade. When I was the head of product at FAST back in 1999, we launched […]