http://searchphilosophy.org Thoughts about Searching Sun, 11 Nov 2007 03:45:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you are looking for help jumpstarting your SEO, Paid Search, or other online marketing efforts, look no further than BAMN Marketing. This hotter than hot new agency includes yours truly, and some of the other finest minds in the game today. And our logo rules. Seriously. ... http://searchphilosophy.org/2007/11/10/new-online-marketing-firm-bamn-marketing/ 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, ... http://searchphilosophy.org/2007/05/18/there-needs-a-better-way-to-punish-comment-spammers/ I use Google analytics all the time, and find it very useful in tracking web user behavior.  Analytics isn't always the easiest word to type though, and more times that I can count I've tried to go to www.google.com/analtyics (or somesuch similar misspelling of the url).  This takes you to one of ... http://searchphilosophy.org/2006/06/13/why-doesnt-google-have-a-better-404-page/ Tiltomo is a new image search site that allows you to search the Flickr database using keywords.  For results that are returned, you have links to find either more results that are similar by Theme, or results that are similar by Color / Texture.  While the text input describes itself ... http://searchphilosophy.org/2006/03/06/tiltomocom-new-image-search-site/ 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 ... http://searchphilosophy.org/2006/02/28/idea-use-the-average-time-to-adwords-click-to-track-spammers/ There has never been an easier time to get your thoughts out there.  For like $10 a month you can have a website, spout your opinions, and share your wisdom with the world.  More and more people spend time reading things like blogs now, and these independent resources are playing ... http://searchphilosophy.org/2006/02/26/subtle-misinformation/ 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 ... http://searchphilosophy.org/2006/02/25/are-you-polluting-the-web/ 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 ... http://searchphilosophy.org/2006/02/22/what-of-domain-names-are-held-by-speculators/ In a continuing trend of more and more entities embracing the potential of social search, Kratia.com has launched what they call a 'democratic' search engine. From the greek word 'to rule' Kratia attempts to put the power to control the SERPs in the hands of its users.  You start off with the MSN search ... http://searchphilosophy.org/2006/02/21/warm-and-fuzzy-logic-kratiacom/ One of the problems with trying to fight content redundancy over multiple sites is that if you don't properly identify the original source of the content, you might penalize the author by wrongly labeling them as a redunandant instance. This has been pointed out by various sources as a possible problem with the current ... http://searchphilosophy.org/2006/02/16/idea-for-system-to-identify-the-original-source-of-content/