I hate comment spammers. Truly hate them. They are the lowest of the low.
Thanks to these jerks we all have to moderate our comments and carefully review new user signups on user contributed sites to try to stop them polluting the community. Once you have a big community of users, they can help with the [...]
In the Algorithm research session at Search Engine Strategies today several panelists mentioned that search engines might use the length of time one spends on a result page to downgrade its relevance in certain circumstances. If everyone immediately clicks back to the search engine for example quickly after visiting a page, the engines may take this as an indication [...]
I think one of the more difficult issues those of us that work in the search marketing field have to deal with is the issue of to what extent our promotion efforts are harming the internet as an open information resource. Osx86 project wrote a nice article on how hacking contests can lead to a [...]
Whenever I search for domain names, I am amazed by how many are being held for ransom by speculators. Is there information anywhere about the number of domain names that are owned versus the number that are active sites? I would define active as those having some content live that are updated at least once per year, excluding [...]