I was going to attend this session but I arrived late because I was having a great conversation about his new project. After yesterday’s speech by Greg Jarboe during the Universal Search session I knew this session would be popular. I had no idea that I could not even get a seat in a really [...]
SES San Jose 2007 Day 2 – Images & Search Engines
by David Dalka on August 21, 2007 in Ask, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO)
SES San 2007 Jose Day 1 – Universal & Blended Vertical Search
by David Dalka on August 21, 2007 in Ask, Blogging, Branding/Buzz/Viral, Change Management, Customer Experience, Google (GOOG), Reputation, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Social Media, Yahoo! (YHOO)
Moderator: Chris Sherman, Co-Chair, SES San Jose Search Engine Marketing Speakers: Greg Jarboe, President and Co-Founder, SEO-PR Sherwood Stranieri, Search Marketing Director, Catalyst online Bill Slawski, seobythesea.com Erik Collier, Director of Product Management, Ask.com David Bailey, Engineer, Google Tim Mayer, Vice President of Product Management, Yahoo! Search Quite likely the busiest session of the day [...]
Death of Blog Search Part 2 – Sifry Leaves Technorati
by David Dalka on August 16, 2007 in Ask, Blogging, Change Management, Customer Experience, Google (GOOG), Metrics, Social Media
Techcrunch, Alarm clock and even Jason Calacanis weighed in on David Sifry’s departure. Jason extrapolated into some things that I don’t agree with completely, except with his suggestion that Web 2.0 companies try to make a profit, but I’ll leave that alone for now. David Sifry today announced that he has stepped down as CEO [...]
University of Michigan Consumer Satisfaction Index Report 2007
by David Dalka on August 14, 2007 in Ask, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO)
The report is out. Greg Sterling has a great write up at Search Engine Land. Congrats to Yahoo! and Ask on their improvements! However, the numbers are extremely fine and as Greg asked the authors, “Why the disconnect between the satisfaction data and market share?” The other thing that should be pointed out is that [...]
Search Engine Strategies San Jose – Silicon Valley August 19-23
by David Dalka on August 14, 2007 in Ask, Blogging, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Mobile Search Marketing, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Social Media, Yahoo! (YHOO)
I look forward to seeing all of my wonderful search engine, mobile search and mobile advertising friends next week at Search Engine Strategies (SES) San Jose! While I’ll definitely be in Mountain View for the Google Dance (hopefully they won’t run out of XL t-shirts in 2 minutes like last year), I’m unsure whether I’ll [...]
IAC Leaves DoubleClick for Atlas
by David Dalka on August 7, 2007 in Ask
Clickz has the details here…
Mossberg: Ask.com Takes Lead In Designing Display Of Search Results
by David Dalka on June 30, 2007 in Ask, Google (GOOG)
Interesting read – you should check it out. Here is the cliff notes version: “Both of the new systems are designed to spare users the extra steps needed in the past to view different types of content related to the same search term. But Google combines these different types of content into one list. Ask [...]
Newly Relaunched Ask.com Glimpses of Greatness and Some Problems
by David Dalka on June 5, 2007 in Ask, Blogging, Customer Experience
Searchengineland, The Ask.com Blog, TechCrunch, John Battelle, The New York Times, Scoble and others apparently got an advance memo and briefing regarding Ask’s new product. Their reviews focus on the interface changes instead of the actual substance, mine will focus on the actual quality of the search data I experienced. Not surprisingly, Gary Price of [...]
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